Midsummer's eve

This delightful vintage image (circa 1907) of 14 little girls, dressed in dainty white dresses, in a field full of daisies, dancing around a May Pole wrapped in strands of daisies will recall to many Tennyson's exquisite poem on the...

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It is to my lasting regret that I never got to perform in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. I have done a great many of their operetta’s and I love their stuff very much, but we never got round to doing the mad fairy one when I belonged to a small light opera group in my teenage years. I quite liked the idea of stomping about the stage in wisps of netting attempting to be a ‘dainty little fairy’, it would have been hilarious. As I have grown older, I now appreciate how on the pulse G&S were…

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"Midsummer Eve," 1908, Edward Robert Hughes