18th Century Tales, Fables, and Fairy Stories
inintunze
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This exhibit is a compilation of stories and fables for children and young adults in the 18th century.
Popular children's tales of a time period have much to say about the social climate of the period itself; fairy tales have been around for centuries and then some, passing down by word of mouth with the same archetypes, and, though the forms and details of the stories themselves may change over the years, their usage remains the same: To teach, caution, and entertain the next generation. This exhibit will contain fairy stories (those centered in fairy worlds or around fantastical creatures themselves), fairy tales (grounded in our own world, with some supernatural aspects), and fables (meant to teach lessons, and rooted in older traditions).
Popular children's tales of a time period have much to say about the social climate of the period itself; fairy tales have been around for centuries and then some, passing down by word of mouth with the same archetypes, and, though the forms and details of the stories themselves may change over the years, their usage remains the same: To teach, caution, and entertain the next generation. This exhibit will contain fairy stories (those centered in fairy worlds or around fantastical creatures themselves), fairy tales (grounded in our own world, with some supernatural aspects), and fables (meant to teach lessons, and rooted in older traditions).
Visit to the benificent fairy.
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834
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Visit to the benificent fairy: illustration from Prince Dorus, or, Flattery put out of countenance : a poetical version of an ancient tale, illustrated with a series of elegant engravings. Illustrations by Charles Lamb.
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Hurly-Burly; or, the fairy of the well
Cobb, James
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Short play written by James Cobb and Thomas King; the first performance was in Drury Lane, 1785.
"HURLY-BURLY; or, The FAIRY of the WELL, being a novel species of Entertainment, partaking as well of the Italian Comedy as the English Pantomime, and much of the plot depending on dialogue, some of which might, from a variety of circumstances at the representation, be lost to many of the audience, it has been deemed adviseable to print such parts of it as have an immediate relation to the plot." |
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Robin Goodfellow; a fairy tale. Written by a fairy. For the Amusement of All the pretty little Faies and Fairies in Great Britain and Ireland
Fairy.
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"For the amusement of all the pretty little faies and fairies in Great Britain and Ireland."
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Memoirs of fairy land: written above an hundred years ago. Now translated from the original legends of Eutopia. By Colin Clout. Poor Colin Clout! Who knows not Colin Clout? Fairy-Queen, Book vi. Cant. 10. Stan. 16
Clout, Colin.
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18th Century Tales, Fables, and Fairy Stories
inintunze
86
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Written by the Countess d'Aulnoy in the 1600s, these fairy tales were later translated into English. The French countess originated the term contes de fées(fairy tales) for her work. She recorded hers over a hundred years before the Brothers Grimm, and her stories were much more child friendly, and told in a casual manner, much like they would have been heard in her salon in the seventeenth century.
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A collection of novels and tales of the fairies. Written by that celebrated wit of France, the Countess d'Anois. In three volumes. ..
Aulnoy
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Fairystories. Containing, I. The blue beard and Florina. III. [sic] The king of the peacocks, and Rosetta. Whereunto is added, an excellent new song, entitled, the fairies dance
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These are fairy tales as we know them-- heroes and villains; kings, queens and princes. Several of these are stories we know better now by the Brothers' Grimm collections.
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Fairy tales. Containing the stories of Cinderilla, or, the little glass slipper; Little Red Riding-Hood, Princess Fair-Star and Prince Cherry, and Ebouli Sina. To which is added, The fairy song
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Little Red and Cinderilla (Or -Ella) are the two most popular stories of this collection; the others have more or less fallen out of popular circulation. Multimedia, most iconically Disney's take on the princess, has helped with their lasting so far into the present day.
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Mother Goose's fairy tales. Containing I Little Red Riding Hood. II. Blue Beard. III. Cinderilla; or, the Little Glass Slipper. IV. Mastercat; or Puss in Boots. V. The Fairy
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18th Century Tales, Fables, and Fairy Stories
inintunze
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