Mary De Morgan 2 hr 32 min read

The windfairies, vain Kesta, the rain maiden, and the ploughman and the gnome, a garland of lyrical, original fairy tales by a Victorian mistress of the form.

Mary De Morgan's 1900 collection gathers beautifully crafted literary fairy tales. Graceful, imaginative, gently wise. Read it for exquisite wonder-tales from one of the finest Victorian fairy-tale writers, enchantments, gnomes, and magical folk told with real artistry and a touch of moral depth, in the great tradition of the artistic fairy tale, prettily illustrated.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 32 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Olive J. Cockerell