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GRANNYS WONDERFUL CHAIR & ITS TALES OF FAIRY TIMES
The writer of “Granny's Wonderful Chair” was a poet, and blind. That she was a poet the story tells on every page, but of her blindness it tells not a word. From beginning to end it is filled with pictures; each little tale has its own picturesque setting, its own vividly realised scenery. Her power of visualisation would be easy to understand had she become blind in the later years of her life, when the beauties of the physical world were impressed on her mind; but Frances Browne was blind from infancy. The pictures she gives us in her stories were created, in darkness, from material which came to her only through the words of others. In her work are no blurred lines or uncertainties, h...
Granny's Wonderful Chair
Frances Browne (16 January 1816 - 21 August 1879) was an Irish poet and novelist, best remembered for her collection of short stories for children: Granny's Wonderful Chair.
Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times
'Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times' is a book by Frances Browne. There are seven fairytales told in the book, through the memories of the wonderful chair belonging to the grandmother of the protagonist, Snowflower. The protagonist is living in a fairytale scenario herself—for her grandmother's chair whisks her away to faraway destinations, eventually ending up in the court of a royal named King Winwealth.
The Hidden Sin
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