Maude Frome Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Mock turtle soup was so wildly popular in #Victorian England that Lewis Carroll gave it a character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. There is no such thing as a mock turtle. The soup is actually made using calf’s meat to imitate the taste of real turtle. #MythologyMonday https://t.co/wLf04RZV0k

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Based on the fairytale The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, published in December 1844.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll & with illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, was first published in 1865. Here Tenniel’s illustration is colorized.

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“Come, come”, cried Emma, “I must beg you not to talk of the sea...I who have never seen it!” Emma, by Jane Austen (ch 12). #BookChatWeekly Lamorna Cove, by Laura Knight, c.1912 https://t.co/3SZCb50FwB

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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” Opening line of Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, who was born in London on 13th May 1907. #BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #OTD Image: Samuel Read, 1850s. https://t.co/j2FuZww65z

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In Snow-White & Rose-Red, by The Brothers Grimm, two sisters help a bear, inspiring his devotion. They also help an evil dwarf who bids the bear to kill the girls. The bear kills the dwarf instead, who has placed a spell on him, & turns into a handsome prince. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/aag5nvC1ne

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@glen_faerie Not in the English version, originally collected by Joseph Jacobs & illustrated by Rackham in 1918 for Steel’s collection. The king who wished to marry his daughter is a Scottish fairy tale & Allerleirauh,recorded by the Brothers Grimm in German, also deals with this theme.

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The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit the goblins are selling at their market & thus almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit at all costs. #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/x9jZnGe87s

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“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”The Three Witches in Macbeth, Act 4, Sc 1. #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday Img: Daniel Gardner, (1775). (L-R): Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, & Anne Gardner (sculptor). https://t.co/yXECT7redH

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Cicely Mary Barker published her first collection of flower fairy illustrations, Flower Fairies of the Spring, in 1923. Here are some of them: bluebell, daisy, heart’s-ease & lady’s-smock. #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/DupuN4eFmH