How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

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How the Fairy Violet Lost and Won Her Wings

by Marianne L. B. Ker

EN·~36 minutes·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total
1

HOW THE FAIRY VIOLET

36:09
2

Bellenden Series - OF - STORIES FOR CHILDREN.

0:29

Description

In a sun‑kissed forest where blossoms unfurl like painted dreams, the tiny Fairy Violet makes her home among a clump of violet flowers at the base of a great oak. Dressed in a robe of deep purple and feather‑light wings that sparkle with morning dew, she spends her days tending the shy blossoms—bathe‑ing them in fresh droplets, mending broken stems, and sharing quiet songs with the dancing elves. Her sisters—Primrose, Cowslip, Bluebell, Anemone, Woodsorrel, and Kingcup—brighten the glade with their own hues and gentle laughter, forming a close‑knit circle of friendship.

When a noisy troop of schoolboys bursts through the woods, Violet is knocked to the ground and the flower she cradles is crushed. The accident shreds her delicate wings, leaving her unable to return to fairy‑land and prompting a desperate search for a remedy. She turns to her fellow fairies and the solemn owl that watches from the hollow oak, hoping the forest’s hidden wisdom might restore what she has lost.

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Language

en

Duration

~36 minutes (35K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works in the International Children's Digital Library.)

Release date

2008-05-12

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Marianne L. B. Ker

A little-known Victorian writer of children's fiction, remembered today for a fairy tale that blends enchantment with a gentle lesson in kindness and self-sacrifice.

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