The Fairy Book

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Dinah Maria’s untimely prestige started with her Cola Monti in 1849, and in the same year she wrote her first three volume novel The Ogilvies, to even greater prestige. Her other successful novels include Olive in 1850, The Head of the Family in 1851 and Agatha’s Husband in 1853, in which the novelist wrote her memories of East Dorset. She wrote the fairy tale Alice Learmont in 1852, and compiled a number of short fiction from periodicals with the title of Avillion and other Tales in 1853. The same compilation was seen in 1857 with the title of Nothing New.

The Fairy Book contains the tales of The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood; Hop-O’-My-Thumb; Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper; Adventures of John Dietrich; Beauty and The Beast; Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes; Jack the Giant Killer; Tom Thumb; Rumpelstilzchen; Fortunatus; The Bremen Town Musicians; Riquet with the Tuft; House Island; Snow-White and Rose Red; Jack and The Bean-Stalk; Graciosa and Percinet; The Iron Stove; The Invisible Prince; The Woodcutter’s Daughter; Brother & Sister; Little Red-Riding Hood; Puss in Boots; The Wolf and The Seven Young Goslings; The Fair One with Golden Looks; The Butterfly; The Frog-Prince; The White Cat; Prince Cherry; Little Snowdrop; The Blue Bird; The Yellow Dwarf; The Six Swans; The Prince with the Nose; The Hind of the Forest; The Juniper Tree and Clever Alice.

Dinah Maria Craik christened as Dinah Maria Mulock, mostly recognized as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik was an English author and poet.

She was born at Stoke-on-Trent to Dinah and Thomas Mulock and grew up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Her father was a former minister of an independent non-conformist parishioners. Her family experienced misfortunes back when she was young, but she received proper education from different districts and eventually became a writer.
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