Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales

Synopsis

Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales is a hard to find collection of fairy tales compiled by Anglican English writer Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, whose notable children’s novels include  The Story of a Short Life, Jackanapes, Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances, A Flat Iron for a Farthing, and Daddy Darwin's Dovecot.

Some of the notable stories in this rare collection of fifteen fairy tales are Good luck is better than gold, The Hillman and the housewife, The Nix in mischief, The ogre courting, The cobbler and the ghosts, The magician’s gifts, The little Darner, The magic Jar, The first wife’s wedding ring, and The magician turned mischief maker.

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