William De Morgan's tailpiece for "The Toy Princess" shows the fairygodmother, Taboret, determinedly taking the true princess, Ursula, back to the real world.
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Carroll, Alicia. “The Greening of Mary De Morgan: The Cultivating Woman and the Ecological Imaginary in ‘The Seeds of Love.’” Victorian Review 36. No. 2 (2010): 104–17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41413856.
Crawford, Alan. "Morgan, William Frend De (1839–1917), potter and novelist." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Web. 23 February 2025.
De Morgan, Mary. On a Pincushion, and other Fairy-Tales. With illustrations by William de Morgan. 2nd ed. London: Seeley, Jackson, 1877. Internet Archive. Web. 5 March 2025.
_____. The Windfairies and Other Tales. Illustrated by OLive Cockerell. London: Seeley, 1900. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Web. 5 March 2025.
De Morgan, Sophia Elizabeth. Memoir of Augustus De Morgan. London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1882. Internet Archive, from an unknown library. Web. 5 March 2025.
_____. Threescore years and Ten: Reminiscences of the Late Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan: to which are added letters to and from her husband, the late Augustus De Morgan, and others. London: Richard Bentley, 1895. Internet Archive, fromthe University of California Libraries. Web. 5 March 2025.
Parker, Claire, speaking in The Vegan Tigress: Mary De Morgan and Her Fairytales." Interview on the PreRaphaelite Society Podcast. https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/podcast/episode/88e8c923/the-vegan-tigress-mary-de-morgan-and-her-fairy-tales.
Pemberton, Marilyn. Out of the Shadows: The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Rose, Lucy Ella. "The Feminist Network of Evelyn De Morgan." In Evelyn & William De Morgan: A Marriage of Arts and Crafts, edited by Margaretta S. Frederick. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2022. 149-57.
_____. "The Vegan Tigress: intimate play resurrects fierce forgotten Victorian writer." website">theconversation.com. Web. 5 March 2025. https://theconversation.com/the-vegan-tigress-intimate-play-resurrects-fierce-forgotten-victorian-writer-251179
Stirling, A.M.W. William De Morgan and his wife. London: Butterworth, 1922. Internet Archive, from a copy in Robarts Library, University of Toronto. Web. 5 March 2025.
"Two Volumes of Fairy Stories." he Spectator. 18 November 1876. 1446-48. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University of California Libraries. Web. 5 March 2025.
Wagner, Shandi Lynne. “Seeds of Subversion in Mary de Morgan’s ‘The Seeds of Love.’” Marvels & Tales 29. No. 2 (2015): 245–64. https://doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.29.2.0245.
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