Michael Fairless was the pseudonym used by English Christian writer Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901) whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902), became a popular classic. She was born in Yorkshire, the youngest of three daughters, and was initially tutored at home by her mother and elder sisters but when her father died in 1881 she was sent to relatives in Torquay, Devon, where she attended a local school. It was here she became aware of...