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duglis
Registered User
(7/3/03 8:35 am)
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What Anthology/Collection is "Three Heads in a Well&quo
3 Heads in a well/King of Colchester's daughters...etc...
is this in katharine Briggs's British Folktale book?
Grimms in another variant?
what?
Can anyone help?
be well all!
Doug
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Rosemary Laek
Unregistered User
(7/3/03 9:22 am)
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Steel, Jacobs, Chambers, Halliwell, Peele
Flora Annie Steel's ENGLISH FAIRY TALES has "The Three Heads of the Well". King of Colchester remarries, kind/unkind. "First publislhed by Macmillan 1918."
Jacobs's ENGLISH FAIRY TALES has it with less detail. He notes it is in Halliwel and also in Chambers and "forms part of Peele's OLD WIVES TALE."
R.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(7/3/03 10:02 am)
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Re: Steel, Jacobs, Chambers, Halliwell, Peele
Joseph Jacobs' version is on SurLaLune at:
www.surlalunefairytales.c...heads.html
Heidi
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duglis
Registered User
(7/3/03 10:02 pm)
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re:
I'm familiar with Jacobs' book, but never picked it up.
How would you rate Flora Annie Steel's ENGLISH FAIRY TALES , Rosemarie?
Doug :)
p.s. thanks
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(7/4/03 9:53 am)
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Steel
I haven't read the whole Steel book lately. Her version of Heads was better than Jacobs's. I expect she had added a lot of the detail. The jacket does say "Retold by".
It has about 40 stories. I'd have to look carefully to see if she has any that aren't in Jacobs's two volumes. But her retelling is very good, and the Rackham illustrations are wonderful, and the book lies flat open (usually), so I'd say it's worth getting!
R.
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(7/4/03 10:46 pm)
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Public domain?
I wonder how many of these translators/editors have been dead long enough for their books to be in public domain all over the world?
Flora Annie Steel, Jacobs, Halliwel, Chambers, Lang, Walter and Lucy Crane, Margaret Hunt.
Surely Peele of OLD WIVES TALE was long enough ago.
R.
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duglis
Registered User
(7/5/03 12:21 am)
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public domain
I've actually found an e-text public domain version of the steel book and i'm going to the office tomorrow to
print off the 76 pages :)
Since Arthur Rackham did the illustrations, I would love
to have bought it, but the cheapest i can find is $25 for
a beat up crusting hard cover copy ...so i'll pass.
I have tons of rackham pictures anyway. :)
Doug
p.s. but if anyone knows of the rackham illustrations specific to
this book (Steel's English Fairy Tales) that are free to d/l somewhere...please
let me know ;)
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Rosemary
Lake
Registered User
(7/5/03 3:36 pm)
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url?
What's the url on the etext of Steel's?
R.
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duglis
Registered User
(7/5/03 6:16 pm)
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re:
Rosemarry,
www.unityspot.com/arthurs...glsh10.xml
for the xml version
www.mainlesson.com/displa...=_contents
for etext
-Douglas :)
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