The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Lemon, Mark

Lemon, Mark (1809–70),
English writer and the first editor of Punch. Among a handful of books for children he wrote two fairy stories, described by F. J. Harvey Darton in Children's Books in England (1932) as ‘jocularly moral’. In The Enchanted Doll (1849), illustrated by Richard Doyle, a grasping old doll‐maker is reformed by fairy means and by the altruistic kindness of the neighbour he despises. Lemon was a close friend of Charles Dickens, and characters and setting have echoes of A Christmas Carol (1843). The strange story of Tinykin's Transformations (1869) describes how the fairy queen, Titania, aids a boy to take on various animal shapes and thereby gather experience and wisdom to rule over a Saxon kingdom.

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