“Almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang”: Nora Lang, Literary Labour, and the Fairy Books

@article{Day2017AlmostWT,
  title={“Almost wholly the work of Mrs. Lang”: Nora Lang, Literary Labour, and the Fairy Books},
  author={Andrea Day},
  journal={Women's Writing},
  year={2017},
  volume={26},
  pages={400 - 420}
}
  • Andrea Day
  • Published 19 September 2017
  • Art
  • Women's Writing
ABSTRACT This essay uses documentary evidence to reveal Leonora Blanche “Nora” Lang’s elision from the history of children’s literature: Lang was actually responsible for the popular Fairy Book series (1889–1913) for which her husband Andrew Lang is now so well known. Accordingly, the essay examines the extraordinary commercial cachet of what Michel Foucault would call Andrew Lang’s “author function.” It considers the connections between the marginalization of Nora Lang’s editorial… 
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