Angel in the Parlor (37 page)

Authors: Nancy Willard

The Rutabaga Lamp: The Reading and Writing of Fairy Tales

1.	Iona and Peter Opie, eds., The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 152.
2.	Opie, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, p. 153.
3.	Tree and Leaf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 10.
4.	Leslie Fiedler, “Introduction,” in Beyond the Looking Glass, ed. Jonathan Cott (New York: Stonehall, 1973), p. xiii.
5.	Madame de SÃ©vignÃ©, August 6, 1677, Correspondance, Vol. II (juillet 1675âseptembre 1680). Texte Ã©tabli, prÃ©sentÃ© et annotÃ© par Roger DuchÃªne (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1974), p. 513.
6.	Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p. 45.
7.	“A Christmas Tree,” in Christmas Stories from “Household Words” and “All the Year Round” (London: Chapman & Hall and Henry Frowde, n.d.), p. 15.
8.	“Preface,” The Lilac Fairy Book (New York: Dover, 1968), p. viii.
9.	“Preface to âThe Spoils of Poynton,'” in The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces by Henry James, intro. Richard P. Blackmur (New York: Scribners, 1934), p. 119.
10.	Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p. 5.
11.	A Likely Story (Dublin: Doleman, 1967), p. 25.
12.	Kingdoms of Elfin (New York: Viking, 1977), p. 1.
13.	Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, pp. 48â49.
14.	The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, vol. 21 (London: Smith, Elder, 1879), pp. 297â298.
15.	The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales (New York: Scholastic, 1978), pp. 2, 3.
16.	George Cruikshank's Fairy Library (London: Bell, [1877]), p. 27.
17.	“Frauds on the Fairies,” in Plays, Poems and Miscellaneous (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), p. 488.
18.	Transformations (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971), pp. 54â55
19.	My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (London: Faber & Faber, 1954), p. 164.
20.	Henry James, “The Art of Fiction,” in The Portable Henry James, ed. Morton Dauwen Zabel (New York: Viking, 1975), p. 399.
21.	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (London: Chapman & Hall and Henry Frowde, n.d.), p. 479.
22.	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p. 483.
23.	The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, p. 485.
24.	Michael Slater, ed., The Christmas Books, vol. 1 (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1975), p. 47.
25.	Slater, The Christmas Books, p. 24.

“Who Invented Water?”: Magic, Craft, and the

Making of Children's Books

1.	“Today's Wonder-World Needs Alice, ” in Robert Phillips, Aspects of Alice (London: Gollancz, 1972), p. 11.
2 .	A Collection of Essays (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday/Anchor, 1953), p. 169.
3 .	J. H. G. Grattan and Charles Singer, eds., Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), p. 193.
4 .	Erroll LeCain, ed. and illus., The White Cat (Scarsdale, N.Y.: Bradbury, 1975), n.p.
5.	Phillips, Aspects of Alice, p. 4.
6.	Leslie Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter (London: Warne, 1971), p. 110.
7.	Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, pp. 7â8.
8.	Lindner, History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, p. xxv.
9.	Christopher Robin Milne, The Enchanted Places (New York: Dutton, 1975), p. 13.
10.	Nat Hentoff, “Profiles: Among the Wild Things,” The New Yorker, January 22, 1966, pp. 42â44.
11.	P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1962), p. 29.
12.	Travers, Mary Poppins, p. 103.
13.	P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins Opens the Door (New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1943), p. 148.
14.	Edward Guiliano, ed., The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll (New York: Avenel, 1982) pp. 5â6.
15.	London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1902. p. 1.
16.	The Water Babies (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1910), p. 24.

About the Author

Nancy Willard grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has written two novels, seven books of stories and essays, and twelve books of poetry, including
The Sea at Truro
(2012). A winner of the Devins Memorial Award, she has received NEA grants in both fiction and poetry. Her book
Water Walker
was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and she won the Newbery Medal for
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
. Willard is an emeritus professor at Vassar College.

Eric Lindbloom

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This collection includes works of fiction, in which names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“Her Father's House” is reprinted from
Redbook Magazine,
copyright Â© 1976 by the Hearst Corporation. All rights reserved. “The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus” is reprintd from
Childhood of the Magician,
copyright Â© 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973 by Nancy Willard, with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. “Animals Running on a Windy Crown” appeared in
American Review.
“The Tailor Who Told the Truth” appeared in
New Dictionaries in Prose and Poetry 24.
“The One Who Goes Out at the Cry of Dawn: The Secret Process of Stories” appeared in
The Writer.
“Becoming a Writer” appeared in
Michigan Quarterly Review.
“Angel in the Parlor: The Reading and Writing of Fantasy” appeared in
The Antioch Review.
“The Well-tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling” appeared in
Massachusetts Review.
“The Spinning Room” appeared in
Hornbook.
“Who Invented Water?: Magic Craft and the Making of Children's Books” appeared in
The Writer.
Lyrics from “Cruising Down the River” by Eily Beadell and Nell Tollerton, copyright Â© 1945 by the Warock Corporation; copyright Â© renewed 1973 by the Warock Corporation. All rights reserved in the United States, Canada and Newfoundland. All other rights reserved to and controlled by Cinephonic Music Co., Ltd. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.