Forbidden Journeys

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers is an anthology edited by Nina Auerbach and U.C. Knoepflmacher.

Each section is introduced with notes about that section and those stories.

Editions

• 1992: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London; ISBN 0-226-03203-5. 373 pp.; jacket illustrations by Arthur Hughes, from the first edition of Speaking Likenesses (1874)

Includes:

Contents

• Introduction / Nina Auerbach and U. C. Knoepflmacher, p. 1

Part One: "Refashioning Fairy Tales", p. 11

• "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" / Anne Thackeray Ritchie, p. 21
• "Beauty and the Beast" / Anne Thackeray Ritchie, p. 35
• "The Brown Bull of Norrowa" / Maria Louisa Molesworth, p. 75
• "Amelia and the Dwarfs" / Juliana Horatia Ewing, p. 105

Part Two: "Subversions", p. 129

• "Nick" / Christina Rossetti, p. 139
• "Christmas Crackers" / Juliana Horatia Ewing, p. 145
• "Behind the White Brick" / Frances Hodgson Burnett, p. 164
• "Melisande, or, Long and Short Division" / E. Nesbit, p. 177
• "Fortunatus Rex & Co." / E. Nesbit, p. 192

Part Three: "A Fantasy Novel", p. 207

• "Mopsa the Fairy" / Jean Ingelow, p. 215

Part Four: "A Trio of Antifantasies", p. 317

• "Speaking Likenesses" / Christina Rossetti

• Biographical Sketches
• Further Readings