Bessie Hatton 1 hr 52 min read

A young king who ought to have been happy, a child of the winds, a flower that reaches the sun-lands, a garland of tender, wistful fairy tales for children.

Bessie Hatton's 1895 collection gathers gentle, poetic wonder-tales. Lyrical, delicate, of its era. Read it for a charming late-Victorian storybook of youth and enchantment, in the graceful fin-de-siècle fairy-tale tradition, prettily illustrated and touched throughout with a wistful longing for lost innocence and springtime.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 52 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

W. H. Margetson