Lilian Whiting. Athens, the violet-crowned. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1913.
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Lilian Whiting. Athens, the violet-crowned. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1913.
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Kate Sanborn. Adopting an Abandoned Farm. New York, D. Appleton and company, 1892.
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe. Two Boys in Beaver-land. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920.
Mrs. C.C. Scott. Magnolias Abloom, and Other Stories. Little Rock, Ark., Press of Gazette publishing company, 1894.
Ethel Mary Brodie. The Rose Colored World, and Other Fantasies. New York, The Metropolitan press, 1910.
Andrew Lang. The Brown Fairy Book, Illustrations by H.J. Ford. New York (etc.), Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910.
This week’s fairy book is brown and it’s filled with the wonderful illustrations of H. J. Ford. This book, along with the remainder of the series (which I’ll be posting), all have a few coloured full-page illustrations. There are a few things I’d like to note. One is the presence of nipples on a bare-chested woman in the drawing on page 111. In fact, I find most of the drawings more suggestive. The princess’s dresses are sheerer and nipples can be seen through them. These drawings are reflective of the societal changes that happened during the Edwardian Period. The drawings also include the usual lions, bears, mermaids and ogres, along with a wonderful cock.
I’d also like to note that thanks to a comment by Crip Dyke, I’ve linked the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. The links are at the bottom of the page near the links to the books online source.
Elizabeth Gordon. Loraine and the Little People of Summer. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1920.
Ethel Maude Colson (Brazelton). The Story of a Dream. Chicago, C. H. Kerr & company, 1896.
Stella G.S. Perry. The Kind Adventure. New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1914.
Andrews Wilkinson. Boy Holidays in the Louisiana Wilds. Boston, Little, Brown, 1917.
F. Edward Hulme. That Rock Garden of Ours. Philadelphia, Jacobs & Co., 1909.
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Charlotte Curtis Smith. Bob Knight’s Diary Camping Out. With sketches by Bob. New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1902.
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Andrew Lang. The Grey Fairy Book. Illustrations by H.J. Ford. New York, Longmans, Green, 1905.
Grey may not be the most exciting of colours, but the stories in this week’s Andrew Lang fairy book are full of adventure and most of the tales are new to me. The illustrations are the work of H.J. Ford again, and it was difficult to pull a few favourites because all the drawings are beautiful. Beginning next week, the remaining Andrew Lang coloured fairy books have actual coloured illustrations, so you won’t want to miss those. For today, let’s have a look at the lovely black and white drawings that accompany these stories.