The Princess Ilsée
A nineteenth century literary fairy tale of the Ilse valley in the Harz mountains, published anonymously and never attributed.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- Date not recorded
- Form
- Other works
- Authorship
- Still unknown
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- Public domain
The authorship story
The Princess Ilsee is a nineteenth century literary fairy tale spun from the Harz mountain legend of the Ilse, the princess transformed into the river that runs from the Ilsenstein. It circulated in English in the mid nineteenth century without an author's name, in the way of much magazine and gift-book fairy literature of the period, and no attribution has entered the documented record. It stands here for the anonymous stratum of the fairy tale revival, stories that shaped nursery imaginations while their writers vanished behind the tales.
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