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Frankly, I bought the book for the artwork (and the awesome pressed fairy stickers that came with it!
Well, this was a difficult book to rate, mainly because somewhere there should have been some mention that this wasn't merely a cute picture book. Lady Cottington’s journal is a coming of age story equipped with squished and squashed faires, pixes, and goblins!This is written in a diary/memoir format, the text didn't keep me interested enough to read it carefully.
Through the handwritten journal of Lady Cottington we learn details of her life, beginning in early childhood to her later years. Having raised my daughter on Cicely Mary Barker's flower fairy images and poems, this send-up had me rolling with laughter. A friend got it for me as a birthday gift not long after I read it, thinking that it would be perfect for faerie loving me, and I gave that grin that says to most people "Oh, I LOVE IT! I wish this book was a bit longer but I seen there is a second book and I definitely want to check it out.
The journal entries are so darn believable that I was sure it was at least loosely based on some fairy sightings. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Terry Jones of Monty Python renown is on writing duty, and he gleefully presents the Lady’s entries as a series of increasingly disturbing snapshots of the life she leads smooshing fairies, goblins, sprites, pixies, any pint-sized magical creature she can snap her book shut on like a trap. They like to mess with Angelica and at some point things start to get out of hand in a sexual nature. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places.
However, I liked it better when I reflected on it a bit more and saw that it was referring more to societal roles, places, etc. It's as if you drove a car at high speed through Fairy Land, and photographed the remains on your front windshield. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. C. Doyle was a devout Theosophist and wanted very badly to believe in such spiritual manifestations).While to the 21st-Century eye these fairies look like the obvious hoax they were, at the time they were enough to convince Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of their authenticity (partly due to the fact, we suspect, that A. The story is typical Monty Python -- lots of sexual innuendo, double-entendre, and some not-so-subtle crudity.
PRINTING STATED 10 3/4 aniversay edition with bonus DVD hardcover padded book LIKE NEW, no dust jacket issued, SIGNED by BRIAN FROUD and also SIGNED by co-author ARI BERK PhD.States "First published in Great Britain in 1994 by Pavilion Books Limited," but this is the Turner American edition. Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in between the pages of her dairy. Whether we are to assume that Angelica is molested or abused by any of the men is unclear, but her flight from England to Italy due to one particularly painful encounter is hint enough. when the book suddenly turned from funny-fairy-squishing to rape and more rape, well, it was a bit difficult to enjoy. Brown paper band still in place to protect the (mildly pornographic) final section, with the glossy fairy bookmark also still in place.
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