Strange and Secret Peoples
Subtitle: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 18, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195144116
First sentence: IN 1846, WILLIAM JOHN THOMS, who contributed the term folklore to the English language, commented in The Athenaeum that "belief in fairies is by no means extinct in England" (Merton, p. 55).