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flamebrain00
Registered User
(10/15/03 10:10 am)
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Victorian England
I'm looking for information on Victorian era fairy tales for my class on gender roles in Victorian England. We're allowed to pick topics for our papers, though, so I figured I'd do something interesting to me.
I've been given a couple of suggestions already, but from what I've found, fairy tales didn't come to England as much until the end of the Victorian Age and after.
Does anyone have suggestions for source material?
Thanks.
~flamebrain
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(10/15/03 1:12 pm)
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Re: Victorian England
You might start with at least a perusal of Michael Hearn's "The Victorian Fairy Tale Book." A copy is available in many libraries and larger bookstores. Here's a link to it on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Harder to find are:
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
by Nina Auerbach (Editor), U.C. Knoepflmacher (Editor)
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves
by Jack David Zipes
www.amazon.com/exec/obido...lalufairyt
Heidi
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hermitcrabbe
Registered User
(10/16/03 10:35 am)
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Re: Victorian England
An interesting book is "The Boy Who Saw True", the diary/autobiography of a victorian boy who could actually see elves, fairies and spirits.
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flamebrain00
Registered User
(10/16/03 4:19 pm)
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Re: Victorian England
Thanks for the suggestions. The Zipes and Hearn had been recommended to me already; I just didn't have the names in front of me. But the Auerbach sounds good, too.
These will definitely give me a start, and hopefully I can narrow down an actual topic with them.
~flamebrain
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Terri
Registered User
(10/19/03 1:10 am)
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Re: Victorian England
There is a short article on Victorian Fantasies on the Endicott
site (www.endicott-studio.com/forvctf.html).
It's not specifically about fairy tales, but maybe it will help.
As Heidi has mentioned, Forbidden Journeys is well worth tracking down.
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