Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm → contents
Ever since I found this book on ebay, I’ve been wanting to learn what fairy tales it includes. So, last week I decided to do a little research. After various failed attempts with keywords and a few image searches, I have managed to find an expired ebay listing, where the seller was considerate enough to name the contents of the book (though they seem to have left out 1 fairy tale).
Since the only copy of Queen Mab’s Fairy Real I have seen floating around costs £350.00, I did a little more research to learn where one can find these tales. Well a lot of research, actually. But alas I was lucky and every single fairy tale I have managed to find a speck of information on, I have also managed to find online! So I decided to share my results with you:
The Giant Knarratschki and the Princess Tingaling - From the German of Clemens Brentano
The Lantern in the Castle Yard - from the German of Baron de la Motte Fougue,
The Sun Princess - A Breton Farm Labourers Story
The Story of the Caliph Stork - from the German of Hauff
The Seven Banded and Seven Locked Steel Box - Charles Smith Cheltnam
The Story of Little Muck - from the German of Hauff
What Became of Cinderella's Slipper, translated from French
The Field of Terror - from the German of Baron de la Motte
Princess Fortunia - translated from Spanish
A Penniless Princess by M Bowley
The Shop that Worked Without Wind or Sail by Charles Smith Cheltnam
The Princess who Understood Magic by M Bowley
The Claws of the Peccalouchi by M Bowley
Bulfstroll the Dwarf's Revenge by Charles Smith Cheltnam
Unfortunatelly the tales I was most interested in remain elusive. Not only were fairy tales by May Bowley difficult to find, but her mere status as a writer was largely unrecognised. It is only thanks to two sources that I know her whole name to be Sophia May Bowley (in all other sources she is credited as M. Bowley) and that she was both a writer and an illustrator of fairy tales. I am afraid is safe to say that the penniless princess and the princess who understood magic appear only in this publication.
EDIT: In the United States the book belongs to the public domain. I think one with an American ip might be able to read if not the whole thing, then bits of it in google books.
