Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century

This two-volume collection includes fairy tales produced by African American, Caribbean, Irish, and other marginalized authors in the Anglophone world. These tales are a part of the expanding cartographies of the fairy-tale world during the long nineteenth-century. While new collections devoted to emerging minority writers include some new and exciting fairy tales, this collection is particularly interested in demonstrating the historic nature of this tradition. Minority writers have been creating fairy tales alongside mainstream authors since the golden age of the fairy tales. Many of these stories have been overlooked because they are embedded in a range of literary genres, including novels, dramas, poems and lyrics. This collection mines these fairy tales and makes out-of-print or otherwise relatively inaccessible marginalized fairy tales available to a new generation of scholars. Fairy Tales from the Margins is essential to moving fairy-tale studies beyond its current boundaries, which also limit the field’s current theories and ideologies. While some written collections are beginning to include fairy tales by historically marginalized writers, there are no collections dedicated to the fairy tales produced by marginalized writers or people of color, particularly during the nineteenth century. And there are no online collections of these distinctive fairy tales. This collection breaks new ground in the field of fairy-tale studies and will allow scholars and researchers to engage with issues that are becoming urgent in an era of rising racial tensions. This study expands upon the long-standing connections between Scottish, Welsh, Irish, African American, and Caribbean revival movements, demonstrating the ways fairy tales are incorporated into earlier forms of ethnic protest literature. This collection is divided by tale types, to demonstrate the wide range of responses to a single tale or group of fairy tales. These divisions rely loosely on the traditional Aarne-Thompson-Uther classification system. Although these tales are primarily written by own-voice authors, a few out-of-print collections of recorded oral tales are also included to demonstrate the longevity of these tales outside mainstream traditions where print traditions are not available.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1. Fairy Tale Revivals General Introduction Bibliography Volume 1 Introduction Part 1: Cinderella Articles Cinderella Erin, (Dublin, Ireland: W.B. Kelly, 1874). ‘Cinderella Erin’, The Nation, Dublin, Ireland, 17 October 1874. ‘Complaint Over Anglican Cinderella’, The Nation, Dublin, Ireland, 6 January 1872. ‘The Cinderella of the Empire’, The Nation, Dublin, Ireland, 7 September 1867. ‘Patriotism at a Discount’, The Port of Spain Gazette, Trinidad, 11 November 1890. ‘The Colonial Office and the Crown Colonies’, The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, Bahamas. 11 September 1909. ‘Cinderella in Skibbereen’, Skibbereen Eagle, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 1 August 1898. ‘Ireland on Stage’, The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, 10 November 1880. ‘Cinderella at the Empire’, The Irish Independent, 28 December 1915. ‘Cinderella Parties’, The Aberystwyth Observer, 30 March 1878. ‘Cinderella Fund’, Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh, 12 March 1914. Part 2: Cinderella Narratives Cinderella, (Waterloo Road, London: March’s Farthing Library, 1849). S.H., ‘Cinderella’, The Cambrian. 21 December 1883. ‘The Princess and the Fairy’, Ireland’s Own: A Journal of Fiction, Literature, and General Information, 4 May 1935, pp. 572-73. ‘Cinderella’, Rhyl Record and Advertiser, 31 December 1898. J. Curtin, ‘Fair, Brown, and Trembling’, Myths and Folklore of Ireland (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890), pp. 78 – 92. A. H. Fauset, ‘Catskin’, excerpted from ‘Negro Folk Tales from the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)’, The Journal of American Folklore, 40:157 (1927), pp. 243–245. G. Murphy, ‘Coat of Rushes and the Prince’, Tales from Ireland (New York: Desmond and Stapleton, 1947), pp. 22-31. J. Sampson (ed.), ‘The Little Slut’, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 2:2 (1923), pp. 99-113. D. Nutt (ed.), ‘Ashy-Pelty’, Folklore: A Quarterly Review of Myth, Tradition, Institution, and Custom, 6 (1895), pp. 305 – 308. D. Nutt (ed.), Cul-fin, Cul-din, and Cul-corrach’, Mrs. Whelan, storyteller, L. Duncan, recorder, Folklore: A Quarterly Review, 5 (1894), p. 203-9. Part 3: Cinderella Alternatives E. Madden, ‘A Girl’s Will’, The Brownie’s Book Magazine, H. Wilkinson, ill., 1:2 (February 1920), pp. 54-56. A. Bird, ‘Impossible Kathleen: A Story’, The Brownie’s Book Magazine, M. Hawkins, ill., 1:10 (October 1920), pp. 297-304. P. Kennedy, Hairy Rouchy’, The Fireside Stories (Dublin: M’Glashan and Gill; and Patrick Kennedy, 1870), pp. 3-9. Sinéad De Valera, ‘Ashapelt’ (ca 1930), The Verdant Valley and Other Stories (Dublin, Ireland: Fallon, 1970), p. 181-89. ‘Adventures of Maureen Rua’, Ireland’s Own: A Journal of Fiction, Literature, and General Information, 7 October 1939, p. 12-3. L. Tobias, ‘The Purim Ball’, The Nationalists and Other Goluth Studies (London: C. W. Daniel, LTD, 1921), pp. 56-64. Part 4: Cinderlad Tales G. C. Camplejohn, ‘Enchanted Island’, The Nassau Guardian, Naussa, New Provindence, Bahamas, 28 February 1891, p. 1. D. Hyde, ‘The Bracket Bull’, The Irish Fairy Book, A. P. Graves, ed., G. Denham, ill., (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909), p. 117-24. J. Sampson, ‘Google-Eyes’, The Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, 2:2 (1923), pp. 101-110. Part 5: Fairy Lore P. Poe, ‘Little Miss Ginger-Snap’, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 2:11 (November 1921), pp. 312-5. A. T. Kilpatrick, ‘Gyp: A Fairy Story’, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 1:1 (January 1920), p. 31. G. W. Barton, ‘The Fairy’s Bride: A Legend of Llangarren’, The National Magazine of Wales, 9:1 (January – June 1886), pp. 13-18. Sinéad De Valera, ‘The Pooka’, Fairy Tales of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland: Fallons, 1967 [unknown]), pp. 13-19. Sinéad De Valera, ‘The Miser’s Gold’, The Miser’s Gold and Other Stories (Dublin, Ireland: Fallons, 1970 [unknown]), pp. 6 – 9. S. Morrison, ‘Cushag’, ‘The Mermaid of Gob Ny Ooyl’, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911), pp. 71-5. W. J. Thomas, ‘Pergrin and the Mermaid’, The Welsh Fairy Book, Willy Pogany, ill., (London: Fisher Unwin, 1907), pp. 138-140. J. D. Suggs, ‘The Mermaid’, American Negro Folktales, Richard M. Dorson, ed. (New York: Dover, 1956), pp. 252-2. Part 6: Tricksters and Wonder Tales A. A. Spence, ‘The Wonderful Pipe’, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, Marcellus Hawkins, ill., 1:10 (1920), pp. 294-6. J. Sampson (ed.), ‘Laula’ (1923), Welsh Gypsy Folk Tales (Wales: Gregynog Press, 1933), pp. 4-8. A. Fauset, ‘The Seventh Son’, excerpted from ‘Negro Folk Tales from the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)’, The Journal of American Folklore, 40:157 (1927 [1925]), pp. 255-7. E. Crawshay-Williams, Hywel and Gwyneth: A Modern Fairy Tale, S. C. Williams, ill., (Cardiff: William Lewis, 1930). A. Fauset, ‘Tar Baby’, excerpted from ‘Negro Folk Tales from the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)’, The Journal of American Folklore, 40:157 (1927 [1925]), pp. 228–31. The Rt Hon Dr L. Bennett-Coverley, ‘Anancy an Alligator’, A Laugh with Louise: Pot-pourri of Jamaican Folklore, Stories, Songs, Verses (Kingston, Jamaica: City Printery, Ltd., 1961), p. 45. S. Morrison, ‘Cushag’, ‘Joe Moore’s Story of Finn MacCooilley and the Buggane’, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911), pp. 42-46. E. C. Parsons, ‘Brave Little Tailor’, The Journal of American Folklore, 38:148 (Apr -June 1925), pp. 267-292. A. Fauset, A., ‘Little Claus’, excerpted from ‘Negro Folk Tales from the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)’, The Journal of American Folklore, 40:157 (1927 [1925]), pp. 253–5. E. C. Parsons, ‘Ramstampeldam’, Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, South Carolina (Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Folklore Society 1923), pp. 23-24. The Rt Hon Dr L. Bennett-Coverley, ‘Unkle Sekrey and Anancy’, A Laugh with Louise: Pot-pourri of Jamaican Folklore, Stories, Songs, Verses (Kingston, Jamaica: City Printery, Ltd.,1961), p. 46-7. A. Fauset, ‘The Friendly Demon’, excerpted from ‘Negro Folk Tales from the South (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)’, The Journal of American Folklore, 40:157 (1927 [1925]), pp. 248–9. Sinéad De Valera, ‘The Well at the World’s End’, The Verdant Valley (Dublin, Ireland: Fallons, 1970 [ca 1930]), pp. 151-62. E. C. Parsons, ‘Blue-beard’ excerpted from ‘Tales from Guilford County, North Carolina’, The Journal of American Folklore, 30:116 (Apr. - Jun. 1917), pp.168-200. Sinéad De Valera, ‘The Stolen Treasure’, The Miser’s Gold and Other Stories (Dublin, Ireland: Fallons, 1970), pp. 46 – 52. Appendix A: ‘Rouchy’, Ireland’s Own: A Journal of Fiction, Literature and General Information, 56:1455 (18 October 1930), pp. 2-3. Index Volume 2. Fairy Tale Revival Dramas General Introduction Bibliography Volume 2 Introduction Part 1. Bluebeard Dramas F. E. E. O. Bell, Bluebeard, Fairy Tale Plays and How to Act Them (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896). The Rt Hon Dr L. Bennett-Coverley and N. Vaz, Bluebeard and Brer Anancy, MS National Library of Jamaica (NLJ), 1944. Part 2. Cinderella Dramas J. M. Barrie, A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1916). E. Williams, Cinderella, typescript, Emlyn William Papers, National Library of Wales (NLW), 1924. Part 3. Wonder Tales and Fairy Lore Dramas L. Hughes, ‘The Gold Piece: A Play That Might Be True’, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 2:7 (1921), pp. 191-4. Battey, ‘Cover Picture’, photograph, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 1:1 (January 1920). ‘Celebrating Baby Week at Tuskegee’, photograph, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 1:1 (January 1920), pp. 16-7. S. Morrison, ‘Cushag’, Eunys, or The Dalby Maid (Prospect Hill, Douglas, Isle of Mann: G&L Johnson, 1908). M. H. Noël-Paton, The Hidden People: A Play Based on the Ballads of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933). Appendices Appendix A: E. C., ‘Two Jamaicans Write and Produce a Pantomime’, The West Indies Review, December 1949, p. 12. Appendix B: ‘A Kiss for Cinderella’, Evening Express, 6 October 1916, p.2. Appendix C: ‘A Kiss for Cinderella’, The Bournemouth Graphic, 1 September 1916, p. 4. Index

About the Author :
Dr. Abigail Heiniger, Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages and Department Chair, teaches literature and writing at Lincoln Memorial University, USA