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Fairy tales were often emotional maps for children. For centuries, mortality rates were high & many children lost their mother. As in Cinderella, fairy godmothers were ghostly, maternal surrogates & cast loving spells. 💫📚
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Rackham, Abbot, Tuck publisher
Good morning, to all of you! Here are some beautiful fall scenes by the master of coziness: Beatrix Potter. I hope your days go well today 🤗❤️
“Autumn Dusk,” by Jo Grundy, is so peaceful for our late afternoon & evening. And there’s our pal the fox. Have a lovely day & evening, hugs to you all 🦊🍂🤎
I love Walter Crane’s illustration for the ancient English song “The North Wind Doth Blow.” The poignant song is about the plight of the robin, & those without shelter, in late autumn. I adore that robin at bottom right. 🍂🤎
#FolkloreThursday
Sometimes portals in fairy-tale novels & art take all forms: from Narnia’a wardrobe, to a knot in a tree, to Masefield’s box of delights, to Carroll’s Alice & those tiny doors. Often, the doorways were the most magical part. 💫
🎨Disney, Schmidt, BBC, & Tenniel #FairytaleTuesday
Mondays can be a lot. So let’s disappear into the landscape of Jane Eyre & the moors of Yorkshire. It’ll always be one of my favourite books. ☺️📚
🎨By Bennett, Eichenberg
Beauty & the Beast was written by two French, 18th-cen, female writers (de Villeneuve & de Beaumont) who wove witty feminism into the tale. Crane’s 1874 art for his “toy book” shined with influences from Japanese art to the Elgin Marbles.🌹#FairytaleTuesday @EnchantedEzine
I hope you all have a Jeremy Fisher kind of a day. Published in 1906, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher conveys Beatrix Potter’s love of the 18th century, wit, enjoying nature, & friendship. ☺️💚
Some of Edmund Dulac’s enchanting fairies for you, as well, today. He was one of the masters of the “Golden Age of Illustration,” roughly 1850-1925. Have a lovely Friday, my friends. 💖🧚🏻♀️
#FaerieFriday
Here’s a beautiful, autumnal work for your Fairy Friday: a well-winged fairy coming in for a landing on a lovely leaf, as one does. ☺️🧡💫
#FaerieFriday
🎨Ida Rentoul Outhwaite