A VICTORIAN fernery was converted into a magical fairy winterland just in time for Christmas. Botanic Gardens, in Southport, gave the attraction a festive makeover and more than 1,000 visitors ...

Book of the Week: Victorian fairy tales By SHIRLEY SAAD SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- There was a time when children used to sit and read, and dream of fairies and princes and princesses.

Victorian Christmas decor, fairy gardens, 10 top trends for kitchens and baths. December 4, 2016 at 4:48AM. Take a guided tour of an authentic 1875 Victorian Christmas at the Alexander Ramsey House.

Many of the stories in Michael Newton’s superb “Victorian Fairy Tales” are also deliciously witty, even winkingly postmodern, since their authors frequently parody, ...

The Victorians were also fascinated by fairylands, explains editor Michael Newton in his introduction to Victorian Fairy Tales (OUP, £16.99), thus this era saw some of the best fairy tales ever ...

Midsummer can be magical and on Saturday evening, July 29, the magic was everywhere on the great lawn in front of the former Lewisburg High School. It’s as if I ...

Abstract During the Victorian period, the concept of miniature worlds, invisible to the eye but ever-present to the imagination, captivated both readers of microscopic literature and audiences of ...

Book of the Week: Victorian fairy tales By SHIRLEY SAAD SAN DIEGO, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- There was a time when children used to sit and read, and dream of fairies and princes and princesses.