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       Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born #OTD, 31 March. An extraordinarily prolific anthropologist, writer & literary critic, he is best remembered today for collecting & editing fairy stories from around the worldA 🎂 🧵1/6https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-man-of-letters-in-fairyland-andrew-lang/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
       
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       “…fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies2/6https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-shy-and-fugitive-people-andrew-lang-and-the-fairies/#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
       
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       “To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post3/6https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/more-than-a-century-later-the-wonderful-work-of-andrew-lang-holds-up-remarkably-well/2020/08/12/4bff860e-dc07-11ea-809e-b8be57ba616e_story.html#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #fairytale #AndrewLang
       
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       “I have his complete collection of books with me at all times. I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them… These stories started their journey with me when I was very young”—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books4/6https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/10/guillermo-del-toro-the-books-tv-film-and-music-that-brought-me-to-crimson-peak#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang #GuillermodelToro
       
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       “The taste of the world, which has veered so often, is constant enough to fairy tales… we are still repeating to the boys and girls of each generation the stories that were old before Homer sang…”—from Andrew Lang’s Introduction to THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (1889)5/6https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Blue_Fairy_Book#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
       
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       @gutenberg_org has free ebook editions of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, & a linked index to all the stories in all twelve volumes6/6https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30580#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
       
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