Andrew Lang
Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844-1912) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 68
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
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"Rumpelstiltskin", by Henry Justice Ford from Lang's Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang at work
Blue plaque, 1 Marloes Road, Kensington, London
The prince thanking the Water Fairy, image from The Princess Nobody (1884), illustrated by Richard Doyle, engraved and coloured by Edmund Evans
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Longman Green & co., London 1898
An illustration of "Athenodorus confronts the Spectre" from The Strange Story Book by Leonora Blanche Lang; Andrew Lang.
