Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Joseph Jacobs

Born: August 29, 1854
Died: January 30, 1916 (aged 61)
Bio: Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore.
Known for:
- English Fairy Tales (1890)
- More Celtic fairy tales (1894)
- More English Fairy Tales (1894)
- Celtic Fairy Tales (1893)
- Indian Fairy Tales (1892)







