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(1844-1912)
Born in Scotland, and passionately interested in Scottish topics all his life, Lang also had an immense impact on the development of general British folklore studies in the late 19th century. His publications range very widely, but his interest in folklore was inspired by Tylor's anthropological writings—particularly Primitive Culture (1871). Lang sprang into the public limelight with what proved to be the first of many public controversies in which he engaged, when an article in the Fortnightly Review (May 1873) took on Max Müller and the other leading figures of the ‘philological school’ of solar mythologists, who believed that the study of language was the primary key to the understanding of myths. Lang propounded instead a comparative anthropological approach which brought in evidence from ‘savage’ cultures on a world-wide basis rather than the relatively narrow Indo-European base of Müller. Lang's timing was excellent, as the philologists' arguments were already somewhat outmoded, and he not only won the day but gave a popular face to the new folklore, and himself, at a stroke. He continued to develop his comparative method, and he joined the Folklore Society on its formation in 1878, serving as its President in 1889-91. Lang described his comparative method in several of his books, such as:
Our method, then, is to compare the seemingly meaningless customs or manners of civilised races with the similar customs and manners which exist among the uncivilised and still retain their meaning. It is not necessary for comparison of this sort that the uncivilised and the civilised race should be of the same stock, nor need we prove that they were ever in contact with each other. Similar conditions of mind produce similar practices, apart from identity of race or borrowing of ideas and manners. (Custom and Magic,new edn. , 1904: 21-2)
This survivals theory is predicated on the belief that all human cultures or civilizations pass through the same evolutionary stages, but that at any given time some are more advanced than others. Unfortunately, this willingness—even eagerness on Lang's part— to pile example upon example from different periods and different places was precisely the element of ‘folklore method’ which got the discipline such a bad name in academic circles from the early 20th century onwards.
One of Lang's most popular projects—for which he is still remembered—was a series of twelve annual volumes of fairytale books, starting with the Blue Fairy Book (1889) and the Red Fairy Book (1890). For these, Lang and his wife (and other helpers) drew on a wide range of sources, including the Arabian Nights and various mythologies, and retold them in a style suitable for Victorian children. They are thus of little use to the scholar, but they were tremendously popular and introduced several generations to myths and folktales. ‘The readers who looked to Andrew Lang for entertainment far outnumbered those who sought instruction from him’ (obituary, 359).
Apart from the tendency to speak his mind, another reason for Lang's often strained relationships with his fellow folklorists was that he clearly believed in some psychic phenomena such as ghosts and even fairies, and was involved also in the Society for Psychical Research, which he joined in 1904 and later served as their President. He called for a ‘scientific approach to the supernatural’, and coined the term ‘psycho-folklorist’, but his evident belief and ‘open-mindedness’ on such topics was hardly calculated to appeal to those who were working so hard to convince the world of folklore's serious scientific credentials and to distance themselves from the immensely popular spiritualism and occultism. There were many times when the poet and romantic in Lang overcame the scholar.
Other books by Lang include Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894); The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897); The Making of Religion (1898); Magic and Religion (1901). See also the longrunning column ‘At the Sign of the Ship’ in Longman's Magazine (1885-1905).
Bibliography
The full bibliography list is available here.
- Obituaries in Folk-Lore
23 (1912), 358-75 - Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang (1946); Dorson, 1968: 206-20
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Lang, Andrew (1844–1912), Scottish folklorist, scholar, poet, and man of letters. Ironically for someone of his vast output, he is now remembered mainly for his fairy tales, and for his Fairy Book series. Born in Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, he was steeped in the ballads and legends of those parts. He was sent to school in Edinburgh where Greek, which ‘for years seemed a mere vacuous terror’, became a passion once he discovered Homer. He studied classics at St Andrews University, and one of his earliest books was a translation of the Odyssey (with S. H. Butcher), published in 1879. Later he was to collaborate with Henry Rider Haggard in The World's Desire (1890), a romance chronicling the wanderings of Odysseus in search of Helen, and the evil magic of Meriamun, queen of Egypt, who tries to foil him.
He had been a comparative mythologist since his youth with a strong interest in anthropology, and his earliest statement of his anthropological theory was in an essay, ‘Mythology and Fairy Tales’, in the Fortnightly Review (May 1873), described by Reinach as ‘the first full statement of the anthropological method applied to the comparative study of myths’. He was to return to it again and again in Custom and Myth (1884), Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887), and lengthy polemical essays in Margaret Hunt's edition of the Grimms' tales (1884), in The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1887), Perrault's Popular Tales (1888), and The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (1893) by Robert Kirk, a Perthshire Presbyterian minister who, according to local legend, was spirited away by the fairies after he trod on a fairy hill.
His Fairy Book series began in 1889 with The Blue Fairy Book. He had overcome his early distaste for literary tales, and though the series was mostly to contain only traditional folk tales, this first volume oddly included an abridged version of Gulliver's voyage to Lilliput. There were 37 tales, from Mme d' Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, the Grimms, as well as Norse, Scottish, and English stories. Though Lang himself had chosen the stories, nearly all the translation and rewriting had been done by others. This was to be the case throughout the series, Mrs Lang latterly undertaking most of the work. The Blue Fairy Book also contained ‘The Terrible Head’, a retelling by Lang himself of the story of Perseus and the Gorgon. He did much the same with ‘The Story of Sigurd’ in the next volume, but did not include this sort of mythological material again in the series. The Red Fairy Book followed in 1890, and the Green in 1892, finishing with Lilac in 1910, by which time the tales had moved from exclusively European sources to take in African, American, American Indian, Berber, Brazilian, Indian, Japanese, Persian, Sudanese, and Turkish examples. Though he had included invented stories by authors such as d'Aulnoy, Hans Christian Andersen, and Zacharias Topelius, by far the greater part of the Fairy Books was derived from traditional folklore. The immense popularity of the series did much to revive interest in fairy tales.
Lang himself wrote several fairy stories. His first, The Princess Nobody (1884) was commissioned to provide a text for illustrations by Richard Doyle, originally published in 1870 with poems by William Allingham. The most striking is The Gold of Fairnilee (1888), inspired by Border ballads and legends. The fairies here are the shadowy, feared spirits who seek to steal humans, and Fairnilee is an actual ruined house on the Tweed known by Lang as a boy. Ranald Ker, whose father has died at the battle of Flodden Field, grows up ‘in a country where everything was magical and haunted; where fairy knights rode on the leas after dark, and challenged men to battle’. His great wish is to meet the Fairy Queen and to be taken into her world, and one Midsummer's Eve he disappears, carried off to Elfland. Here he is held captive, and though it charms him at first, he comes to see it as hollow and desolate. (In its account of Elfland the story resembles Dinah Mulock's Alice Learmont, which it is possible Lang had read.) At the end of seven years Jean, his childhood companion, succeeds in rescuing him. Prince Prigio (1889), Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893), and Tales of a Fairy Court (1906) are light‐hearted jeux d'esprit in the Thackeray manner, sometimes, especially in the last of these, verging on the burlesque. Prince Prigio, cursed by a fairy at his christening by being made ‘too clever’, antagonizes all around him. Having spurned the gifts brought by the more benevolent fairies—seven league boots, a wishing cap, a magic carpet—in a dire emergency he learns their value, and eventually wishes himself to seem no cleverer than other people. In contrast, Prigio's son Ricardo relies too much on magic and has to be taught self‐reliance. Tales of a Fairy Court are further chronicles of Prigio and Pantouflia.
Bibliography
- Burne, Glenn S., “‘The Blue Fairy Book’”, in Perry Nodelman (ed.), Touchstones (1987).
- Green, Roger Lancelyn, Andrew Lang (1946).
- Levitt, Andrew, “‘Andrew Lang’”, in Jane Bingham (ed.), Writers for Children (1988).
- Montenyohl, Eric, ‘Andrew Lang's Contributions to English Folk Narrative’,
Western Folklore , 47 (1988).
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Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, English scholar and man of letters, b. Scotland. His poetry, much of it written in the forms of ballades, triolets, and rondeaux, appeared in such volumes as his Ballads in Blue China (2 vol., 1880-81). Lang was one of the first to apply anthropological findings to the study of myth and folklore; his best work in this field was Myth, Literature, and Religion (1887, rev. ed. 1899). He is known for his prose translations of the Odyssey (with S. H. Butcher, 1879), and the Iliad (with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers, 1883), and for his defense of the unity of Homer in The World of Homer (1910). With his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang, he translated and adapted traditional stories for children, published in his Blue Fairy Book (1889) and others. Lang also wrote literary and art criticism, a biography of J. G. Lockhart (1896), and several works on Scottish history, culminating in his History of Scotland (4 vol., 1900-1907). His poetical works were edited (1923) by his wife.
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See biography by R. L. Green (1946, repr. 1973).
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, Andrew 1844-1912.British writer and anthropologist who is best known for his fairy tales, including The Blue Fairy Book (1889).
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Andrew Lang
(1844-1912)
Philosopher, poet, scholar, and author of scholarly books on a wide range of topics, including anthropology, folklore, mythology, psychology, ghost lore, history, biography, and fairy tales. He was born at Selkirk, Scotland, on March 31, 1844, and was educated at St. Andrews University. He also studied at Glasgow University and Oxford University (Balliol and Merton colleges). Lang abandoned his fellowship at Merton College to become a journalist and author in London.
He joined the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in 1906, but his interest in psychical phenomena was of longer standing. Lang studied them rather from the historic and anthropologic, than from the experimental, viewpoint.
His earliest paper was read before the SPR on the Cock Lane Ghost in 1894. Subsequently he was a frequent contributor to the society's Proceedings and Journal. In the Journal (vol. 7) he wrote on Queen Mary's diamonds; in Proceedings (vol. 11) on the voices of Joan of Arc. The telepathy à trois (involving three individuals) was his conception in a paper on the mediumship of Leonora Piper. His book Custom and Myth, published in 1884, contained a chapter on the divining rod, which he regarded as a mischievous instrument of superstition. However, the investigations of William Barrett convinced him that it was "a fact, and a very serviceable fact." Lang also contributed some valuable personal evidence on crystal gazing.
He wrote several articles on psychic research for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1902. His books The Making of Religion (1898), Magic and Religion (1901), Cock Lane and Common Sense (1894), and The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) are regarded as valuable tools for students of psychic research. The Mind of France (1908) was the first attempt to consider Joan of Arc in the light of psychic phenomena. In 1911 Lang became president of the Society for Psychical Research. According to the Rev. M. A. Bayfield in Proceedings (vol. 26), it is fair to infer from Lang's later writings that he found the exclusion of an external agency from some phenomena increasingly difficult.
The range and content of Lang's books and writings demonstrate remarkable originality and scholarship. He was the first scholar to properly correlate the mythology of ancient society with the folklore and psychic phenomena of modern civilization. His rainbow-colored series of fairy tale books for children, beginning with The Blue Fairy Book in 1889, remains popular.
Lang was honored by St. Andrews and Oxford universities and was elected an honorary fellow of Merton College in 1890. The freedom of his native town of Selkirk was conferred on him in 1889. He died July 20, 1912.
Sources:
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Lang, Andrew. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts. 1897. Reprint, New York: Causeway Books, 1974.
——. Cock Lane and Common Sense. London: Longmans, Green, 1894. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1970.
——. Magic and Religion. 1901. Reprint, New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.
——. The Maid of France, Being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc. London: Longmans, Green, 1908.
——. The Making of Religion. 1898. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1968.
Pleasants, Helene, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Parapsychology. New York: Helix Press, 1964.
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For other people named Andrew Lang, see Andrew Lang (disambiguation).
| Andrew Lang | |
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 Andrew Lang |
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| Born | 31 March 1844 Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland |
| Died | 20 July 1912 (aged 68) Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Writer (poet, novelist), Literary critic, Anthropologist |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Period | 19th century |
| Genres | Children's Literature |
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
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Biography
Lang was born in Selkirk. He was the eldest of the eight children born to John Lang, the town clerk of Selkirk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, who was the daughter of Patrick Sellar, factor to the first duke of Sutherland. On 17 April 1875 he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, the youngest daughter of C. T. Alleyne of Clifton and Barbados.
He was educated at Selkirk grammar school, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the most able and versatile writers of the day.
He died of angina pectoris at the Tor-na-Coille Hotel in Banchory, Banchory, survived by his wife. He was buried in the cathedral precincts at St Andrews.
Professions
Folklore and anthropology
Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. The interest in folklore was from early life; he read John McLennan before coming to Oxford, and then was influenced by E. B. Tylor.[1]
The earliest of his publications is Custom and Myth (1884). In Myth, Ritual and Religion (1887) he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms. Lang's Making of Religion was heavily influenced by the 18th century idea of the "noble savage": in it, he maintained the existence of high spiritual ideas among so-called "savage" races, drawing parallels with the contemporary interest in occult phenomena in England. His Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903).
Psychical research
Lang was one of the founders of "psychical research" and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He served as President of the Society for Psychical Research in 1911.
Classical scholarship
See also: English translations of Homer#Lang
He collaborated with S. H. Butcher in a prose translation (1879) of Homer's Odyssey, and with E. Myers and Walter Leaf in a prose version (1883) of the Iliad, both still noted for their archaic but attractive style. He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer And The Study Of Greek found in Essays In Little (1891), Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906).
Historian
Lang's writings on Scottish history are characterised by a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a gift for disentangling complicated questions. The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901) was a consideration of the fresh light thrown on Mary, Queen of Scots, by the Lennox manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, approving of her and criticising her accusers.
He also wrote monographs on The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906) and James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902). The somewhat unfavourable view of John Knox presented in his book John Knox and the Reformation (1905) aroused considerable controversy. He gave new information about the continental career of the Young Pretender in Pickle the Spy (1897), an account of Alestair Ruadh MacDonnell, whom he identified with Pickle, a notorious Hanoverian spy. This was followed by The Companions of Pickle (1898) and a monograph on Prince Charles Edward (1900). In 1900 he began a History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1900). The Valet's Tragedy (1903), which takes its title from an essay on Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask, collects twelve papers on historical mysteries, and A Monk of Fife (1896) is a fictitious narrative purporting to be written by a young Scot in France in 1429-1431.
Other writings
Lang's earliest publication was a volume of metrical experiments, The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872), and this was followed at intervals by other volumes of dainty verse, Ballades in Blue China (1880, enlarged edition, 1888), Ballads and Verses Vain (1884), selected by Mr Austin Dobson; Rhymes à la Mode (1884), Grass of Parnassus (1888), Ban and Arrière Ban (1894), New Collected Rhymes (1905).
Lang was active as a journalist in various ways, ranging from sparkling "leaders" for the Daily News to miscellaneous articles for the Morning Post, and for many years he was literary editor of Longman's Magazine; no critic was in more request, whether for occasional articles and introductions to new editions or as editor of dainty reprints.
He edited The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896), and was responsible for the Life and Letters (1897) of JG Lockhart, and The Life, Letters and Diaries (1890) of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh. Lang discussed literary subjects with the same humour and acidity that marked his criticism of fellow folklorists, in Books and Bookmen (1886), Letters to Dead Authors (1886), Letters on Literature (1889), etc.
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To 1884
- St Leonards Magazine. 1863. This was a reprint of several articles that appeared in the St Leonards Magazine that Lang edited at St Andrews University. Includes the following Lang contributions: Pages 10–13, Dawgley Manor; A sentimental burlesque; Pages 25–26, Nugae Catulus; Pages 27–30, Popular Philosophies; pages 43–50 are ‘Papers by Eminent Contributors’, seven short parodies of which six are by Lang.
- The Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (1872)
- The Odyssey Of Homer Rendered Into English Prose (1879) translator with Samuel Henry Butcher
- Aristotle's Politics Books I. III. IV. (VII.). The Text of Bekker. With an English translation by W. E. Bolland . Together with short introductory essays by A. Lang To page 106 are Lang's Essays, pp. 107–305 are the translation. Lang's essays without the translated text were later published as The Politics of Aristotle. Introductory Essays. 1886.
- The Folklore of France (1878)
- Specimens of a Translation of Theocritus. 1879. This was an advance issue of extracts from ‘Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English prose’
- XXII Ballades in Blue China (1880)
- Oxford. Brief historical & descriptive notes (1880). The 1915 edition of this work was illustrated by painter George Francis Carline[2].
- 'Theocritus Bion and Moschus. Rendered into English Prose with an Introductory Essay. 1880.
- Notes by Mr A. Lang on a collection of pictures by Mr J. E.Millais R.A. exhibited at the Fine Arts Society Rooms. 148 New Bond Street. 1881.
- The Library: with a chapter on modern illustrated books. 1881.
- The Black Thief. A new and original drama (Adapted from the Irish) in four acts.(1882)
- Helen of Troy, her life and translation. Done into rhyme from the Greek books. 1882.
- The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1882) with William Aldington
- The Iliad of Homer, a prose translation (1883) with Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers
- Custom and Myth (1884)
- The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland (1884)
- Ballads and Verses Vain (1884) selected by Austin Dobson
- Rhymes à la Mode (1884)
- Much Darker Days. By A. Huge Longway. (1884)
- Household tales; their origin, diffusion, and relations to the higher myths. [1884]. Separate pre-publication issue of the "introduction" to Bohn's edition of Grimm's Household tales.
1885-1889
- That Very Mab (1885) with May Kendall
- Books and Bookmen (1886)
- Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
- In the Wrong Paradise (1886) stories
- The Mark of Cain (1886) novel
- Lines on the inaugural meeting of the Shelley Society. Reprinted for private distribution from the Saturday Review of 13 March 1886 and edited by Thomas Wise (1886)
- La Mythologie Traduit de L’Anglais par Léon Léon Parmentier. Avec une préface par Charles Michel et des Additions de l'auteur. (1886) Never published as a complete book in English, although there was a Polish translation. The first 170 pages is a translation of the article in the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’. The rest is a combination of articles and material from ‘Custom and Myth’.
- Almae matres (1887)
- He (1887 with Walter Herries Pollock) parody
- Aucassin and Nicolette (1887)
- Myth, Ritual and Religion (2 vols., 1887)
- Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose. Done into English from the French of Charles Deulin (1887)
- Grass of Parnassus. Rhymes old and new. (1888)
- Perrault's Popular Tales (1888)
- Gold of Fairnilee (1888)
- Pictures at Play or Dialogues of the Galleries (1888) with W. E. Henley
- Prince Prigio (1889)
- The Blue Fairy Book (1889) (illustrations by Henry J. Ford)
- Letters on Literature (1889)
- Lost Leaders (1889)
- Ode to Golf. Contribution to On the Links; being Golfing Stories by various hands (1889)
- The Dead Leman and other tales from the French (1889) translator with Paul Sylvester
1890–1899
- The Red Fairy Book (1890)
- The World's Desire (1890) with H. Rider Haggard
- Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody (1890)
- The Strife of Love in a Dream, Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna (1890)
- The Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1890)
- Etudes traditionnistes (1890)
- How to Fail in Literature (1890)
- The Blue Poetry Book (1891)
- Essays in Little (1891)
- On Calais Sands (1891)
- The Green Fairy Book (1892)
- The Library with a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books (1892) with Austin Dobson
- William Young Sellar (1892)
- The True Story Book (1893)
- Homer and the Epic (1893)
- Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893)
- Waverley Novels (by Walter Scott), 48 volumes (1893) editor
- St. Andrews (1893)
- Montezuma's Daughter (1893) with H. Rider Haggard
- Kirk's Secret Commonwealth (1893)
- The Tercentenary of Izaak Walton (1893)
- The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
- Ban and Arrière Ban (1894)
- Cock Lane and Common-Sense (1894)
- Memoir of R. F. Murray (1894)
- The Red True Story Book (1895)
- My Own Fairy Book (1895)
- Angling Sketches (1895)
- A Monk of Fife (1895)
- The Voices of Jeanne D'Arc (1895)
- The Animal Story Book (1896)
- The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1896) editor
- The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1896) two volumes
- The Nursery Rhyme Book (1897)
- The Miracles of Madame Saint Katherine of Fierbois (1897) translator
- The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
- A Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897)
- Pickle the Spy (1897)
- Modern Mythology (1897)
- The Companions of Pickle (1898)
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898)
- The Making of Religion (1898)
- Selections from Coleridge (1898)
- Waiting on the Glesca Train (1898)
- The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)
- Parson Kelly (1899) Co-written with A. E. W. Mason
- The Homeric Hymns (1899) translator
- The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four Volumes (1899) editor
1900–1909
- The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
- Prince Charles Edward (1900)
- Parson Kelly (1900)
- The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (1900) editor
- A History of Scotland - From the Roman Occupation (1900–1907) four volumes
- Notes and Names in Books (1900)
- Alfred Tennyson (1901)
- Magic and Religion (1901)
- Adventures Among Books (1901)
- The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
- The Mystery of Mary Stuart (1901, new and revised ed., 1904)
- The Book of Romance (1902)
- The Disentanglers (1902)
- James VI and the Gowrie Mystery (1902)
- Notre-Dame of Paris (1902) translator
- The Young Ruthvens (1902)
- The Gowrie Conspiracy: the Confessions of Sprott (1902) editor
- The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
- Lyrics (1903)
- Social England Illustrated (1903) editor
- The Story of the Golden Fleece (1903)
- The Valet's Tragedy (1903)
- Social Origins (1903) with Primal Law by James Jasper Atkinson
- The Snowman and Other Fairy Stories (1903)
- Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies (1903) with H. Rider Haggard
- The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- Historical Mysteries (1904)
- The Secret of the Totem (1905)
- New Collected Rhymes (1905)
- John Knox and the Reformation (1905)
- The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot (1905)
- The Clyde Mystery. A Study in Forgeries and Folklore (1905)
- Adventures among Books (1905)
- Homer and His Age (1906)
- The Red Romance Book (1906)
- The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
- The Portraits and Jewels of Mary Stuart (1906)
- Life of Sir Walter Scott (1906)
- The Story of Joan of Arc (1906)
- New and Old Letters to Dead Authors (1906)
- Tales of a Fairy Court (1907)
- The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
- Poets' Country (1907) editor, with Churton Collins, W. J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge, Michael Macmillan
- The King over the Water (1907)
- Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
- The Origins of Religion (1908) essays
- The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
- Origins of Terms of Human Relationships (1908)
- Select Poems of Jean Ingelow (1908) editor
- The Maid of France (1908)
- Three Poets of French Bohemia (1908)
- The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
- The Marvellous Musician and Other Stories (1909)
- Sir George Mackenzie King's Advocate, of Rosehaugh, His Life and Times (1909)
1910–1912
- The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
- Does Ridicule Kill? (1910)
- Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy (1910)
- The World of Homer (1910)
- The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
- Ballades and Rhymes (1911)
- Method in the Study of Totemism (1911)
- The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
- Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown (1912)
- A History of English Literature (1912)
- In Praise of Frugality (1912)
- Ode on a Distant Memory of Jane Eyre (1912)
- Ode to the Opening Century (1912)
Posthumous
- Highways and Byways in The Border (1913) with John Lang
- The Strange Story Book (1913) with Mrs. Lang
- The Poetical Works (1923) edited by Mrs. Lang, four volumes
- Old Friends Among the Fairies: Puss in Boots and Other Stories. Chosen from the Fairy Books (1926)
- Tartan Tales From Andrew Lang (1928) edited by Bertha L. Gunterman
- From Omar Khayyam (1935)
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
- The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
- The Red Fairy Book (1890)
- The Green Fairy Book (1892)
- The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
- The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
- The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
- The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
- The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
- The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
- The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
- The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
References
- ^ John Wyon Burrow, Evolution and Society: a study in Victorian social theory (1966), p. 237; Google Books.
- ^ Waters, Grant M.. Dictionary of British Artists, Working 1900-1950, (Eastbourne Fine Art, Eastbourne, 1975), p. 59
- Roger Lancelyn Green (1946) Andrew Lang: A critical biography with a short-title bibliography.
- Antonius P. L. de Cocq (1968) Andrew Lang: A nineteenth century anthropologist (Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands). Tilburg: Zwijsen.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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- Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909. (1889-90 Gifford Lectures)
- Andrew Lang, Letters to Dead Authors, transcribed from the 1886 Longman's edition.
- Andrew Lang, Introduction to Marian Roalfe Cox's Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin and, Cap O' Rushes, Abstracted and Tabulated with a Discussion of Medieval Analogues and Notes.
- Lang, Andrew (1903), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (c. 79 – 1545), I (Third ed.), New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=RHQHAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1907), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1546–1624), II (Third ed.), Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, http://books.google.com/?id=ATwUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1904), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1625–1689), III, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=4HQHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1
- Lang, Andrew (1907), A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (1689–1747), IV, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=ED4GAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew; Lang, John (1914), Highways and Byways in The Border (New ed.), London: MacMillan and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=ydpouqtSUfoC&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1898), The Highlands of Scotland in 1750 (from Manuscript 104 in the King's Library, British Museum), Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, http://books.google.com/?id=_BgjAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1902), The Mystery of Mary Stuart (Third ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=yD4DAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage
- Lang, Andrew (1903), Charles Edward Stuart, The Young Chevalier (New ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=PBUhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1897), Pickle the Spy, or The Incognito of Prince Charles (Third ed.), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=wGUDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover
- Lang, Andrew (1898), The Companions of Pickle, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=CNcWC8mLcPsC&printsec=toc
- Lang, Andrew (1902), James VI and the Gowrie Mystery, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., http://books.google.com/?id=uasDAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage
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