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Ruth Manning-Sanders (born 1888 in Swansea, Wales; died October 12, 1988, in Penzance, England) was a Welsh poet and author who was perhaps best known for her series of children's books in which she collected and retold fairy tales from all over the world. Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Swansea ( Abertawe "mouth of the Tawe " is a city and county in Wales. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Penzance (Pensans also Penzans, IPA: /pɛnˈzæns/ is a town Civil parish, and Port in the Penwith district of Cornwall England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 A fairy tale or fairy story is a fictional Story that may feature folkloric characters (such as fairies, enchantments]] often involving The dust jacket for A Book of Giants aptly describes her writing style: "Mrs. The dust jacket (sometimes dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the outer cover which is often detachable and often illustrated A Book of Giants is a 1963 anthology of 13 Fairy tales from Europe that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Manning-Sanders tells the stories with wit and good humor. Wit is a form of intellectual Humour. A wit (person is someone skilled in making witty remarks Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement There is not a word wasted. "

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Biography

Manning-Sanders was the youngest of three daughters of an English Unitarian minister. Unitarianism as a theology is the belief in the single personality of God in contrast to the doctrine of the Trinity (three persons in one God In Christian churches, a minister is someone who is authorized by a church or religious organization to perform clergy functions such as teaching of beliefs She was born in Wales but, when she was 3, her family moved to their native England in Cheshire. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Cheshire (or archaically the County of Chester) is a county in North West England. As a child, she had a great interest in reading books on many topics. She and her two sisters wrote and acted in their own plays. A play, or stageplay, is a form of Literature written by a Playwright, almost always consisting of Dialogue between Fictional characters She described her childhood as, "extraordinarily happy . Child article read through the various talk pages for the debate -- it's been put on and removed twice . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom. "

Some great insight into her childhood, and perhaps her inspirations, comes from an autobiographical story she tells in the foreword to Scottish Folk Tales:

When were children, my sisters and I, we spent our summer holidays in a farmhouse at the edge of a sea loch in the Highlands. Scottish Folk Tales is a 1976 anthology of 18 Fairy tales from Scotland that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a Farm. It is a type of Building or House which serves a Residential purpose in a The Scottish Highlands ( Scottish Gaelic: A' Ghàidhealtachd, Scots: Hielans) include the rugged and Mountainous The farmer's family was a big one, ranging from Granny Stewart (very old, very lame, and generally laughing) down through parents, grown-up sons and daughters, to children of our own age. Granny Stewart knew no end of stories, and she loved to tell them as much as we loved to listen. . . . Of course, we weren't always listening to stories: that was a wet weather pastime. At other times we were out swimming, or riding the farm horses (when they allowed themselves to be caught) or boating on the loch and singing to the seals. . . . The evenings would usually find us gathered in the big candle-lit barn, with one of the grown-up sons (either Jock or Lachie) marching up and down playing the bagpipes, and all the rest of us energetically dancing reels. What fun we had! But I think the highlight of all these holidays came on my tenth birthday. On the evening before this birthday (unknown to us children) a gipsy with a dancing bear arrived at the farm, asking to be ferried across the loch. With a good supper of cheese and oatcakes, and a bed of straw in a disused stable, the gipsy was easily persuaded to stay the night. An oatcake is a type of cracker or Pancake, made from Oatmeal, and sometimes Flour as well Imagine my joyous surprise when, on running out the next morning after breakfast, I saw the bear on a grass plat close to the quay, waiting to go through his tricks. . . . And when the tricks had been duly performed, with ample rewards of 'sugar and spice and all things nice' between each one, the bear was led down to the waiting boat, clambered in, and seated himself in the stern, like the seasoned traveller he was. I remember it so vividly: the bear with his humped brown back and heavy head, the two rowers watching his every movement rather anxiously, and ourselves standing in a group on the quay, shouting our farewells. But not once did that bear turn to give us a parting glance. His eyes were fixed on the opposite shore, where doubtless he would go through his performance all over again: though never, surely, to a more appreciative audience. . . (The name of the farm, by the way, was Shian, which means the place where fairies live. )

Manning-Sanders studied English literature and Shakespearean studies at Manchester University. The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from William Shakespeare ( baptised The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. She married English artist George Manning-Sanders and spent much of her early married life touring Great Britain with a horse-drawn caravan and working in the circus (a topic she wrote about extensively). England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, Clowns trained animals trapeze acts Hoopers, tightrope walkers Eventually, the family moved into a cottage in the fishing hamlet of Land's End, Cornwall. A hamlet is (usually&mdashsee below a Rural community — that is a small settlement — which is too small to be considered a Village. Land's End ( Cornish name Penn an Wlas) is a headland on the Penwith Peninsula, located near Penzance in Cornwall Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar She and her husband had two children together, one of whom, Joan Floyd (May 17, 1913, to May 9, 2002), found some fame as a teenage artist in the 1920s while under her maiden name of Joan Manning-Sanders. Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

After World War II and the accidental death of her husband (in 1952), Manning-Sanders published dozens of fairy-tale anthologies, mostly during the 1960s and 1970s. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Death is the termination of the biological functions that define living Organisms It refers both to a specific The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Many of them had titles beginning with "A Book of. . . " Some titles, therefore, were A Book of Wizards, A Book of Dwarfs, and so forth. A Book of Wizards is a 1967 anthology of 11 Fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. A Book of Dwarfs is a 1964 anthology of 17 Fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

In the foreword to her 1971 fairy-tale anthology, A Choice of Magic, Manning-Sanders writes: "There can be no new fairy tales. A foreword is a (usually short piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of Literature, before the introduction, and written by someone A Choice of Magic is a 1971 anthology of 32 Fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. They are records of the time when the world was very young; and never, in these latter days, can they, or anything like them, be told again. Should you try to invent a new fairy tale you will not succeed: the tale rings false, the magic is spurious. For the true world of magic is ringed round with high, high walls that cannot be broken down. There is but one little door in the high walls which surround that world -- the little door of 'once upon a time and never again. "Once upon a time" is a Stock phrase that has been used in some form since at least 1380 (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) in ' And so it must suffice that we can enter through that little door into the fairy world and take our choice of all its magic. "

In the forewords to some fairy-tale compilations, Manning-Sanders discusses the origins of the tales she is retelling. The stories in A Book of Dragons hail from Greece, China, Japan, Macedonia, Ireland, Romania and Germany, among other places. A Book of Dragons is a 1965 anthology of 14 Fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. Macedonia is a Geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe whose area was re-defined in the early 20th century Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Manning-Sanders goes out of her way to state that "not all dragons want to gobble up princesses. The dragon is a Legendary creature of which some interpretation or depiction appears in almost every culture worldwide " She thus includes tales of kind and proud dragons, along with the savage ones.

Some insight into how Manning-Sanders believes fairy tales should usually end can be gleaned from a passage in her foreword to A Book of Witches: "Now in all these stories, as in fairy tales about witches in general, you may be sure of one thing: however terrible the witches may seem -- and whatever power they may have to lay spells on people and to work mischief -- they are always defeated. A Book of Witches is a 1966 anthology of 12 Fairy tales from Europe that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. . . . Because it is the absolute and very comforting rule of the fairy tale that the good and brave shall be rewarded, and that bad people shall come to a bad end. " Along those same lines, Manning-Sanders notes in the foreword to A Book of Princes and Princesses: "And so you will find, as you read these stories, that they all have one thing in common. A Book of Princes and Princesses is a 1970 anthology of 13 Fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders Though they come from many different countries, and were told long, long ago by simple people separated that they may not even have known of each other's existence, yet the stories these people told are all alike in this: they every one have a happy ending. A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of Fiction in which almost everything turns out for the best for the Hero or Heroine "

While many of the tales Manning-Sanders relates in her various fairy-tale anthologies are not commonly known, she also includes stories about some famous literary and cultural characters, such as Baba Yaga, Jack the Giant-Killer, Anansi, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Robin Hood and Aladdin. Baba Yaga (Ба́ба-Яга́ Баба Рога Баба Яга Баба Рога Polish, Czech, Baba Jaga Baba Roga is in Slavic folklore, a witch-like " Jack the Giant Killer " is a Fairy tale. As a variation on " The Brave Little Tailor " it shares some similarities to what is known today as " Anansi is one of the most important characters of West African lore Snow White (in Low German Sneewittchen; in High German Schneeweißchen) is the title character of a Fairy tale known from many countries in Hansel and Gretel ( Hänsel und Gretel) is a Fairy tale of Germanic origin adapted by the Brothers Grimm and earlier by Giambattista Robin Hood is an archetypal figure in English folklore, whose story originates from medieval times but who remains significant in popular culture where Aladdin (an Anglicisation of the Arabic name (originally Syrian Alāʼ ad-Dīn, Arabic: علاء الدين literally "nobility of the faith"

In the February 1989 issue of The Junior Bookshelf, M. S. Crouch wrote, "For many long-lived writers, death is followed by eclipse. I hope that publishers will (continue to re-release Manning-Sanders') priceless treasury of folk-tales. We would all be the poorer for their loss. "

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John Frederick Clute (1940-) is a Canadian born author and critic who has lived in Britain since 1969 John Grant (born 1949 is a Scottish writer and editor of Science fiction, Fantasy, and non-fiction The Encyclopedia of Fantasy is a 1997 Reference work on Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant.
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