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Name: Andrew Lang
From: 1844
To: 1912
Biography: Lang was born and grew up at Viewfield in Selkirk, and afterwards educated in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Glasgow and Oxford. In 1875 he moved to London, and later befriended R.L. Stevenson and W.E. Henley.
Lang was a poet, novelist, literary critic, historian, biographer and contributor to anthropology. He is now chiefly known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. Working with his wife Leonore Blanche Alleyne, Lang adapted and translated folk and fairy tales from all around the world. Lang's Fairy Book series contains dozens of fairy tales, myths, fables, legends, and nursery rhymes including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Story of Wali Dad the Simple-Hearted", "The Story of Three Bears", "The Goblin Pony", "The Story of a Very Bad Boy", "The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Snow Queen", "The Norka", "Rapunzel", "Schippeitaro", and "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non-; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893), and wrote numerous historical texts including A Short History of Scotland (1911). His collected works include essays on religion, myths, the noble savage, and magic under such titles as Custom and Myth (1884), Myth, Ritual, and Religion (1886), and The Making of Religion (1900).
Background Reading: http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang
Titles: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy | Highways and Byways in the Border |
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Home | Author detail page
Name: Andrew Lang
From: 1844
To: 1912
Biography: Lang was born and grew up at Viewfield in Selkirk, and afterwards educated in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Glasgow and Oxford. In 1875 he moved to London, and later befriended R.L. Stevenson and W.E. Henley.
Lang was a poet, novelist, literary critic, historian, biographer and contributor to anthropology. He is now chiefly known as one of the most important collectors of folk and fairy tales. Working with his wife Leonore Blanche Alleyne, Lang adapted and translated folk and fairy tales from all around the world. Lang's Fairy Book series contains dozens of fairy tales, myths, fables, legends, and nursery rhymes including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Story of Wali Dad the Simple-Hearted", "The Story of Three Bears", "The Goblin Pony", "The Story of a Very Bad Boy", "The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Snow Queen", "The Norka", "Rapunzel", "Schippeitaro", and "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non-; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893), and wrote numerous historical texts including A Short History of Scotland (1911). His collected works include essays on religion, myths, the noble savage, and magic under such titles as Custom and Myth (1884), Myth, Ritual, and Religion (1886), and The Making of Religion (1900).
Background Reading: http://www.online-literature.com/andrew_lang
Titles: Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy | Highways and Byways in the Border |
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009