Epiphany Gift 5: Latham’s Elizabethan Fairies January 6, 2015
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern , trackback
A happy epiphany to all. Six year old little Miss B (her picture) has just announced that she thinks that ‘adults’ might be behind the Santa Claus lark and this seems, then, like an excellent time to give Beach’s fifth epiphany gift. This is Minor White Latham’s Elizabethan Fairies published back in 1930. In Beach’s humble opinion it stands with Jeremy Harte’s Exploring Fairy Traditions and Hartland’s The Science of Fairytales as one of the three greatest books written on fairies since Midsummer Night’s Dream. The incredible thing is that Latham’s book has been largely ignored even by those writing on, er, Elizabethan fairies. The file has been compressed because otherwise it wouldn’t have been loadable. Just add water… If anyone has a problem with this send me an email and I’ll try and send it direct.
Happy epiphany!
B
