known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many...
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variously credited as author, collaborator, or translator of Lang's Colour/Rainbow Fairy Books which he edited. He was educated at Selkirk Grammar School...
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Henry Justice Ford (category Illustrators of fairy tales)
when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured the imagination of a generation of British children...
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Green fairy may refer to: Absinthe, an alcoholic beverage The Green Fairy Book (1892) in the series Lang's Fairy Books Fern the Green Fairy, one of the...
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Anthony Reubens (1850). Fairy Tales From All Nations. New York: Harper. pp. 132–136. "THE CROW from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books". mythfolklore.net. Retrieved...
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Blockhead Hans (category Danish fairy tales)
translation (as "Blockhead Hans") appeared in Andrew Lang's 1894 The Yellow Fairy Book, although Lang gave no source for the tale. The tale has been variously...
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The Nunda, Eater of People (category African fairy tales)
Swahili Tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar (1870). Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book (1901). It is Aarne-Thompson type 550, the quest for...
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Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (category Collectors of fairy tales)
paragon and encourager of young Estonian-speaking intellectuals. Andrew Lang's Fairy Books J. R. R. Tolkien Kalevala A. Plakans, A Concise History of the Baltic...
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Bluebeard (category French fairy tales)
detractor was Scottish folklorist Andrew Lang, selector and editor of the popular children's series Lang's Fairy Books. Lang was displeased with the Orientalist...
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Leonora Blanche Alleyne (redirect from Leonora Blanche Lang)
writer of The Fairy Books, a series of 25 collections of folk and fairy tales for children she published with her husband, Andrew Lang, between 1889 and...
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