Fairyland’s Beauty

Fairyland’s Beauty

Infobox Book |
name = Fairyland's Beauty
title_orig =
translator = Baroness Orczy


image_caption = 1895 1st edition
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illustrator =
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
series =
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publisher = Dean and Wolf

release_date = 1895
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"Fairyland's Beauty" aka "The Suitors of Princess Fire-Fly", was edited and translated from the Hungarian by Baroness Orczy (creator of the famous the Scarlet Pimpernel series), in 1895.

The illustrations in the book were provided by her husband, Montagu Barstow, who she married in 1894.


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