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Christianity. The contention is that there existed a certain tension between these two points – between the localising and universalising demands of the evangelical project – that characterised Protestant missionary attitudes to evangelism at this time. There are a variety of competing terms in German (and English) at play in this chapter: Mythos , Mythe (myth), Märchen (fairy tale), Sage (saga), Erzählung (story), Geschichte (story, history
key buildings in the city (including mosques) were specially illuminated, the scene described as one straight out of fairy-tales. The great and good, including selected Arab notables, gathered for the arrival of the emperor, la maréchale MacMahon on his arm. Late in the evening supper was served, tables laden with Algerian specialities or those inspired by local products including such treats as ‘porcupine garnished with
originally Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams. She had an Irish grandmother who sent her fairy-tales and books of legends, and her mother’s ancestry was Scottish. Sue Thomas notes that Rhys felt her family, though middle class, was regarded as below ‘the solidly English middle classes’ in the island. 64 This is confirmed by an incident recounted in Phyllis Shand Allfrey’s biography: Allfrey met Rhys in England in
-human animals is therefore not just important but sacred. Its transgression is a sacred taboo. In western fairy tales, such as those of Aesop, a true metamorphosis between humans and non-human animals does not take place – animals simply don human attire. On the other hand, this tradition has been challenged since the nineteenth century by Darwinian evolutionism, which has been a
-plane, owed its development to ‘a fairy tale white knight’, a sporty young man who had inherited a family fortune and contracted de Havilland to build him an aeroplane. 4 Wealth, leisure and sport were synonymous with all flying, into the Empire not least. Few people could afford to purchase or even rent a Moth; there were probably fewer than 100 ‘Moth flights’ across the Empire by
and gowns of the senior judiciary; military personnel in full dress; and above all royalty come before us in these public moments as from a land of fairy tale that temporality cannot touch. We are mortal; they are from a world that is immemorial and immortal. The power of this cultural grammar is immense and exists not only in costume and ritual but in music, gesture and language. The music most
little island in the West’ came to ‘belong to each other’, declares that the book is ‘not a history lesson, but a story-book’, including ‘stories which wise people say are only fairy-tales and not history. But it seems to me that they are part of Our Island Story, and ought not to be forgotten.’ The story therefore starts with Neptune and Brutus of Troy, before arriving at the Romans, and later
, ‘that everlasting entity’. 19 His journey would prove that ‘the air and the four corners of the earth are ours to command’. 20 A fairy tale was about to come true. The shimmering symbolism was memorable sixty years later: the moment was remembered as ‘the culmination of six years of pioneering endeavour and the brink of realisation for an Imperial dream’. Empire and mother country would be joined as
‘Airborne to Africa’ was more than alliteration; it was still extraordinary news. A Times leading article intoned paternally that Africa was like a fairy-tale sleeping beauty, waiting to be awakened by some outside agency before the full extent of its resources could be utilised ‘for its material advancement and more complete civilization’. Cobham, the editorial continued, was setting out so that British
to be practised on the island), and days were spent sunbathing on the island’s white beaches and jumping into the fairy-tale ocean. 17 ‘We go naked’, the famous musician went on to explain, ‘so the heat does not disturb us. The hustle of culture we do not know, our venture is communistic, every colonist becomes part-owner.’ 18 Lützow’s panegyric descriptions of