Abbie Farwell Brown 1 hr 17 min read

'Let him prove it': so opens a fairy tale of a Flower Princess and the suitor who must earn her, told with old-world charm for young readers.

Abbie Farwell Brown's 1904 book is a graceful fairy story for children by a beloved author of the day. Charming, imaginative, tenderly told. Read it for a gentle Edwardian storybook of a flower-crowned princess and a lover's quest, in the warm and lyrical manner of a favorite writer for the young.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

1 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).