ALMOST EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT GNOMES, FAIRIES, AND OTHER ELEMENTAL BEINGS. |
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Illustration by Martha Gradisher from The Return of the Brownies by M.E. Heller
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It was 19th century children's writer and illustrator, Palmer Cox, who made the gnome the Scots called "Brownie" famous. |
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Some years ago, in Rochester New York's Strong Museum, we followed a young gift store buyer up and down the aisles of Margaret Strong's amazing collection of dolls and Victoriana. "Here they are," the gift store buyer cried, as we came upon a case of one-hundred-year-old Palmer Cox Brownie artifacts. And there they were; their images printed and stamped upon everything from dolls and toy blocks to china plates and silverware; those tiny chinless, oval-eyed, long-toed, skinny-legged, smiling, gnomes. "WHAT IS A BROWNIE?" the child with the doll would ask. |
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| THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES
A children's fantasy for early readers about a young violinist who, with the help of his great grandmother, seeks to find the "real" gnomes upon which Palmer Cox based his famous characters. |
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| The magic of fairies is not an end in itself. Its virtue is in its operations. Among these are the satisfactions of certain primordial human desires, one of which is to survey the depths of time and space, and another is to hold communion with other living things. J.R.R. TOLKIEN |
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copyright 2006 M.E. Heller All Rights Reserved
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