From a different angle (the needs of children rather than the origins of a genre) ES
here supported an idea whose time had come. Andrew Lang
(with his wife, Leonora
) published The Blue Fairy...
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Violet Hunt
Lang's wife, Leonora
, collaborated with him on this series. The Hunt sisters also worked on The Red Fairy Book (1890).
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May Kendall
MK
collaborated with Lang
(though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora
, launched a...
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1889: Andrew Lang and his wife Leonora published...
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1889
Andrew Lang
and his wife Leonora
published the first of their series of fairy volumes: The Blue Fairy Book. Other colours followed.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wolf, Abby. The Golden Age of Children’s Literature: An Introduction. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/railway/age_text.html.
