Granny's Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times.

About Granny's Wonderful Chair, and its Tales of Fairy Times

Granny's Wonderful Chair is a collection of fairy tales by Irish author Frances Browne (1816–1879), first published in an 1857 edition with illustrations by Kenny Meadows. It is Browne's best-known work. It concerns a poor, orphaned girl named Snowflower who has the ability to command her grandmother’s chair to tell stories and to carry her to different locations. Transported to the castle of King Winwealth, Snowflower asks the chair to tell a story each night for the amusement of the court. The seven fairy tales told by the chair make up the bulk of the book. The story is rounded off with "Prince Wisewit's Return", in which Snowflower is reunited with her grandmother. The book has been described as containing "some of the best original short fairy tales of its period". It was the subject of a claim of plagiarism, after Frances Hodgson Burnett published a fairy tale based on "The Story of Fairyfoot." The collection has been republished many times, and translated into several languages.