Ellen Gregory on “Why I Write Fantasy”
There’s a strong element of ‘write what you know’ as well. I read a lot of fantasy and I connect with it, so it feels perfectly natural for me to write it. I think many people don’t understand that fantasy is largely about real stuff — characters just as real as any fictional character, with the same spectrum of emotions, faced with the same tough decisions, interacting with each other in the way humans do (note: the vast majority of fantasy characters are human).
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John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906) was one of the earlier Victorian painters to embrace fairies as a subject, and earned the nickname "Fairy Fitzgerald" due to his apparent obsession. ... 
