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"Telling Outrageous Marvels": Henry Morley's Baroque Victorian Fairy Tales
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, 2011
- pp. 234-248
- 10.1353/chl.2011.0019
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A thoroughly English author intensely involved in the period's issues, Morley brought to his work a keen social conscience balanced by an equally assertive fancy bordering on anarchic glee. In his tales we detect a tipping point that heralds Lewis Carroll's brilliant Alice campaign against straitlaced manners and morals.