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Melisande, or Long and Short Division

E. Nesbit

First published September 1901
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story


Published July 1900 as "Melisande, or the Long-Haired Princess" in The Strand Magazine 20:1 pp. 108-15; with 5 illustrations by {{a|Claude A. Shepperson}} The illustrations are not evidently signed. They are credited in the Index to bound volume 20, p803, where the listing begins (first part all caps) "Melisande ; or, The Long-Haired Princess. A Story for Children." The candidate subtitle is also displayed above Nesbit's name on page 108. (viewed at HathiTrust)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1901 Cover Nine Unlikely Tales for Children T. Fisher Unwin Collection |5
1910 Nine Unlikely Tales for Children T. Fisher Unwin Collection |5
1960 Nine Unlikely Tales London: E. Benn; New York: Coward-McCann Collection 161
January 1971 Cover Princess Tales Scholastic Book Services Anthology 49
1977 Cover Fairy Stories Ernest Benn Collection |4
February 1982 Cover Billy Roi Le Livre de Poche Collection 63
June 1989 Cover Melisande Walker Books (UK) Chapbook |1
October 1989 Cover Melisande Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Chapbook |1
March 1990 Cover Die Sirene und andere phantastische Erzählungen Suhrkamp Anthology 150
May 1992 Cover Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers University of Chicago Press Anthology 177
September 1993 Cover Whereyouwantogoto and Other Unlikely Tales Barefoot Books Collection |4
November 1993 Cover Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers University of Chicago Press Anthology 177
January 2008 Cover Nine Unlikely Tales for Children LibriVox Collection |5
December 2014 Cover Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers University of Chicago Press Anthology
March 2015 Cover Victorian Fairy Tales Oxford University Press Anthology 366
September 2015 Nine Unlikely Tales Project Gutenberg Collection |5
May 2016 Cover Victorian Fairy Tales Oxford University Press Anthology