![]() Unlike Sleeping Beauty, whose curse causes her absolute immobility, the light princess has a frightening amount of impossible-to-control mobility. The curse in The Light Princess, however, is not to fall into a death-like sleep at puberty instead, the curse causes the baby to lose her gravity, in both senses of the word: she instantly becomes light in mind and in body-so light that she will, if not tethered, float to the ceiling, or even out the window. 1 The Light Princess is one of several Victorian retellings of "Sleeping Beauty." In MacDonald's version, as in Charles Perrault's, a king and queen finally have a child they hold a christening but forget to invite a vengeful fairy she comes anyway and curses the child. The exceptions are two of his novels- The Princess and the Goblin (1872) and The Princess and Curdie (1883)-and his short story, The Light Princess (1864). ![]() ![]() George MacDonald was a prolific writer, but few of his children's writings appeal to our modern sensibility. ![]()
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