The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) (66 page)
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Authors: Michael Patrick Hearn
D
ANTE
G
ABRIEL
R
OSSETTI
(1828–1882) founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt. He was as gifted a poet as he was a painter. He contributed illustrations to several books, including William Allingham’s
The Music Master
(1855) and his sister Christina Rossetti’s
Goblin Market
(1862) and
The Prince’s Progress
(1866).
J
OHN
R
USSIN
(1819–1900) became one of the most revered art and social critics of his day with the publication of his first book
Modern Painters
(1843). His only published work of fiction was the children’s story
The King of the Golden River
(1851).
W
ILLIAM
M
AKEPEACE
T
HACKERAY
(1811–1863) was a cartoonist as well as one of the most important novelists of the Victorian Age. His works include
The Luck of Barry Lyndon
(1844),
Vanity Fair
(1847),
Rebecca and Rowena
(1850), and
The Newcomes
(1855), as well as a series of “Christmas Books” in imitation of Charles Dickens, the most famous being
The Rose and the Ring
(1855).
O
SCAR
W
ILDE
(1854–1900) was one of the most flamboyant literary figures of the late nineteenth century. His reputation rests on a wide variety of writing, including his collections of fairy tales,
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
(1889) and
The House of Pomegranates
(1891), the novel
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1891), his plays
Lady Windermere’s Fan
(1892) and
The Importance of Being Earnest
(1895), and the poem
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
(1898).
W
ILLIAM
B
UTLER
Y
EATS
(1865–1939), perhaps the greatest modern poet in English, was a prominent member of the Irish revival called “the Celtic Twilight” after his book of 1893. Besides writing many exquisite poems based upon his native folklore, such as those in
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems
(1889), he collected several volumes of Irish fairy tales and legends.
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EARN
is America’s foremost man of letters specializing in children’s literature and its illustration. The author of
The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, The Annnotated Wizard of Oz, The Annotated Christmas Carol
, and
The Art of the Broadway Poster
, and the editor of
The Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Book
, he has also provided introductions to such classics as
At the Back of the North Wind, Peter and Wendy, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
, and
Little Wizard Stories of Oz
. His articles have appeared in the
New York Times Book Review
, the
Washington Post Book World
, the
Nation, Graphis, American Artist
, the
Ladies’ Home Journal
, and other publications. He is also the author of an original fairy tale,
The Porcelain Cat
, with illustrations by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Michael Patrick Hearn teaches the history of children’s book illustration at Columbia University. He is currently writing
Classics Reconsidered
, a study of the masterworks of juvenile literature, as well as a biography of L. Frank Baum, author of
The Wizard of Oz
.