100 Victorian Tales of Folklore, Fairy & Fantasy for Children
From The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901

A Publication of VictorianVoices.net

Launched in 1891, The Strand would soon become one of the most popular magazines of its day, offering its readers both general-interest nonfiction articles and a wealth of literature from top authors around the world. Of course, eventually The Strand would perhaps be known best for bringing us the adventures of Sherlock Holmes (some of which you will find in another of our fiction collections).

But The Strand didn't forget its younger readers either. Nearly every issue included a short story for children. Most often, these were drawn from international sources, including international folktales, and original fairy tales by authors around the world. These authors included Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas, Xavier Marmier, and many others. Later issues offered stories by E. Nesbit and other renowned English children's authors. (This set includes the complete "Seven Dragons" series by Nesbit, published in The Strand in 1899.

The Victorian era saw the birth of the genre we would call "fairy tales" and "fantasy fiction" today. In the late 1800's, this was often a combination of retold folktales and original material. Victorian fantasy was charming and entertaining, but today's reader should be warned that it was often not "politically correct."

1891: Barak Hageb and His Wives; From the Hungarian of Moritz Jokai; The Blue Cat; From the French of Daniel Dare; The Enchanted Whistle; by Alexandre Dumas; Fairy Dust; From the French of George Sand; The Hermit; From the French of Voltaire; The King and the Artist; From the Spanish of Mariana Monteiro; Kojata; From the Russian; The Lucky Coin; From the Portuguese of Gonzalo Fernandez Francoso; The Spider's Web; From the French of Jacques Normand; The Stone Breaker; From the French of Quatrelles; The Two Genies; From the French of Voltaire
1892: Budiak's Sacrifice; A Hungarian Legend; Drak the Fairy; From the French of Souvestre; The Little Grey Man; From the French of E. Laboulave; The Lost Spear; A South African Story; The Prince with the Hand of Gold; From the Servian; Rajeb's Reward; An Arabian Tale, from the French of M.P. Granal; The Romance of a Telegraph Wire; From the German of Karl von Schlözer; The Silver Penny; From the Hungarian; The Three Brother Beasts; From the Italian; The Three Lemons; From the Italian; The Three Sisters and Their Glass Hearts; From the Russian; Zerbin the Wood-Cutter; From the French of E. Laboulave
1893: Ashik-Kerib; A Turkish Tale by M. Lermontov, translated from the Russian by E.M. Brayley Hodgetts; The Nankeen Jacket; From the French of Gustave Guesviller; The Slippers of Abou-Karem; From the French of Xavier Marmier
1894: The Bird-Cage Maker; From the Spanish; Fatma; From the German of Wilhelm Hauf; The Iron Casket; From the German; The Land of Youth; A Scandinavian Popular Tale; The Three Gold Hairs of Old Vsevede; From the Servian; The Vizier and the Fly; From the French of Louis de Gramont; The White Mouse; From the French of Hégésippe Moreau
1895: The Children's Fairy; From the French of Saint Juirs; Dorothee's Kiss; A Story of the Franco-German War, by Minnie Mortimer; The Golden Bees of Mythia; by Horace Murreigh; The Golden Spinning Wheel; A Slavonic Story, from the French of Xavier Marmier; Ring-Falla Bridge; A Fairy Tale, by K.E. Sutter; The Ship that Could Sail Over Land and Sea; From the German; The Spring-Tide of Love; by Pleydell North (Mrs. Egerton Eastwick); The Three Valleys; From the German; The Unicorn; by E.P. Larkin
1896: The Ant Mountain; From the German; How Sampo Lappelill Saw the Mountain King; From the Swedish of Z. Topelius; The Lightning Fiend; by Robert Barr; Little Blue Flower; From the German, by Miss F.E. Hynam; The Necklace of Tears; by Mrs. Egerton Eastwick; The Prince and the Lions; From the Persian; Princess Crystal, or the Hidden Treasure; by Isabel Bellerby; The Princess Who Despised All Men; by Charles Smith Cheltnam; The Story of the Invisible Kingdom; From the German of Richard Leander; The Witch-Dancer's Doom; A Breton Legend
1897: Christmas in the Forest; From the German; The Giant Knarratschki and the Princess Tingaling; From the German of Clemens Brentano; Lillekort; From the French of Xavier Marmier; The Magician and His Pupil; From the German of A. Godin; The Mid-Day Rock; From the French of J. Jarry; The Shy Princess; by Flora Schmals; The Strawberry Thief; From the German of Pauline Schanz; Ten Little Fairies; From the French of Georges Mitchell; The Wandering Soldier; From the German; Witty-Splinter; From the German of Clemens Brentano; The Woodcutter's Daughter and the Mysterious Voice; From the German
1898: Axim's Reward, or the Magic Blessing; From the Russian; Belle Yvonne and Her Husband the Dwarf; From the French of Daniel Riche; The Captive Princess; by John C. Winder; Cinderella's Daughter; From the French of Jules Le Maitre; Fishy Frolics; by Canning Williams; Knowledge Without Wisdom; Adapted from the Sanskrit by T.R. Edwards; Natalia and the Imp; From the Russian; Prince Egod and the Ravn; From the Russian; The Story of Sunbeam; by Luigi Capuana; The Sun Horse; From the German of J. Wenzig
1899: The Cotton-Wool Princess; From the Italian of Luigi Capuana; Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice; by E. Nesbit; The Memory-Saver; by F.C. Younger; Whereyouwanttogoto, or The Bouncible Ball; by E. Nesbit
1899 - E. Nesbit's "Seven Dragons": 1 - The Book of Beasts; 2 - The Purple Stranger; 3 - The Deliverers of Their Country; 4 - The Ice Dragon, or, Do As You Are Told; 5 - The Island of the Nine Whirlpools; 6 - The Dragon Tamers; 7 - The Fiery Dragon, or, The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
1900: The Blue Mountain; by E. Nesbit; Bulestroll the Dwarf's Revenge; by Charles Smith Cheltnam; The Cockatoucan, or Great Aunt Willoughby; by E. Nesbit; The King of the Swans; From the German; Melisande, or the Long-Haired Princess; by E. Nesbit; The Ship That Worked Without Wind or Sail; by Charles Smith Cheltnam
1901: The Enchanted Feathers; An Oriental Fairy Tale, from the French; The Giant's Hand; From the French of M. De La Barre; How Turlupin Won the Princess; Translated from the French of Jérome Doucet, by G.H. Wodehouse; The Magic Flute; by Amy Cackett; Princess Fortunia; From the Spanish; The Seven-Banded and Seven-Locked Steel Box; by Charles Smith Cheltnam; The Sun Princess; A Breton Farm Labourer's Story, translated by Margaret Maitland; The Three Gifts; From the French; What Became of Cinderella's Slipper; From the French, by Charles Smith Cheltnam; The Wrong Princess; by R.E. Vernède

100 Victorian Tales of Folklore, Fairy & Fantasy for Children From The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901

A Publication of VictorianVoices.net

100 Victorian Tales of Folklore, Fairy & Fantasy for Children
From The Strand Magazine, 1891-1901