Jane Barlow 34 min read

A harmful spell cast by the Bad Brown Witch shows King Oberon a wondrous Town in her mirroring mere, and so begins, in flowing verse, the tale of why the fairies fled the world of men.

Jane Barlow's 1894 book is a lyrical narrative poem of the passing of Faerie. Elegiac, graceful, beautifully wrought. Read it for a wistful Victorian fantasy in verse, the melancholy legend of the fairies' last days and their departure, in the tradition of the twilight-of-Faerie tale.

In its time

Published in 1894, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

34 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Laurence Housman