"Everything about her was white, glistening and shining" — Edmund Dulac's frontispiece for the Queen of Roumania's 's "The Dreamer of Dreams"

Everything about her was white, glistening and shining.

Edmund Dulac, 1882-1953

1900

Source: the Queen of Roumania's The Dreamer of Dreams, frontispiece.

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Nearer and nearer she ghded, her bare feet hardly touching the ground. She seemed shaped out of floating mists. All the splendour of the night, the dazzling brilliancy, the vast snow-field, the glory of the moon, the myriad stars, all paled before the beauty of the woman that now approached.

Everything about her was white, glistening and shining ; so shining that the human eye could hardly bear the radiance. Her long white hair hung about her ; a circle of glow-worms surrounded her forehead. Her head was bent, still gazing on that which she held in her hand. On either side marched one of the great bears like two guardians. Just as she neared the spot where Eric stood she once more bent to the snow, and with almost loving precaution raised something in her hand. [17]

Bibliography

[Sylva, Carmen] The Queen of Roumania. The Dreamer of Dreams. London, New York, and Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, [1900]. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 8 January 2013

Last modified 9 January 2013