ABSTRACT
Fairy lore permeates Victorian literature; it pervades the novels of Charles Dickens and Charlotte and Emily Bronte as well as the poetry of Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Wil liam Morris, William Allingham, and William Butler Yeats. It influences fairy tales and fan tasies-including those of Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, and George MacDonald. Its popularity contributes to the rise, in the 1840s, of a new genre: fairy painting. Note worthy examples include Richard Dadd's Fairy Feller's Master Stroke (1855-1864), Jo seph Noel Paton's Fairy Raid (1867), and Richard Doyle's illustrations to In Fairy Land (1870). Fairy lore also infiltrates pantomime and legitimate theater through fairy plays like James Barrie's Peter Pan (1904).
