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The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde

by Mary De Morgan

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First published
1886
Pages
84
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Published in 1880 with illustrations by Walter Crane, this collection opens with its darkly memorable title tale. Princess Fiorimonde is beautiful, vain, and secretly versed in witchcraft, and to escape a marriage that would end her power she enchants each of her suitors in turn, shrinking them into golden beads on the necklace she wears at her throat. Only her sharp-eyed maid Yolande suspects the truth. The other stories share the same mix of wonder and moral steel, giving children real danger and real consequences rather than easy comfort. De Morgan stands with the finest Victorian fairy-tale writers, and this remains her best-known book.

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Mary De Morgan

Mary De Morgan (1850-1907) was an English author known for three collections of original fairy tales admired for their wit and moral bite. Daughter of the mathematician Augustus De Morgan and sister of the potter William De Morgan, she moved in Pre-Raphaelite circles and read her tales to the children of William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.

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First published
1886
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
84
Language
English
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