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Forbidden journeys : fairy tales and fantasies by Victorian women writers

A collection of eleven fairy tales by Victorian women.
Print Book, English, 1992
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1992
VI, 373 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780226032047, 9780226032030, 0226032043, 0226032035
911291189
Introduction Part One: Refashioning Fairy Tales The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray Ritchie Beauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray Ritchie The Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa Molesworth Amelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia Ewing Part Two: Subversions Nick, Christina Rossetti Christmas Crackers, Julian Horathia Ewing Behind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett Melisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. Nesbit Fortunatus Rex & Co., E. Nesbit Part Three: A Fantasy Novel Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow Part Four: A Trio of Antifantasies Speaking Likenesses, Christina Rossetti Biographical Sketches Further Readings