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“... This climate of acceptance and interest has made possible the reappearance of two novels by Katharine Briggs, Hobberdy Dick, first published in 1955, and Kate Crackernuts, which Kestrel have reclaimed from the 1963 Alden Press edition. Dr Briggs’s scholarly reputation rests on The Fairies in Tradition and ...”

“... gets a pony; no one makes a breakthrough in self-acceptance. The great pioneer of fairy studies, Katharine Briggs, wrote in The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (1967) of the continuity of fairy tradition: ‘Every now and then poets and writers draw on the tradition, and make of it something suitable to the spirit of their age. Sometimes this passes ...”