Strange and Secret Peoples
Subtitle: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 4, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195121995
First sentence: IN 1846, WILLIAM JOHN THOMAS, 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).