title: The Victorian Fairy Tarot
author:  Lunaea Weatherstone 
description: Lunaea Weatherstone (Portland, Oregon) is a priestess, writer, teacher, and tarot counselor who has been serving the Pagan community for more than twenty-five years, since her days as owner/editor of <i>SageWoman</i> magazine. As Grove Mother for the Sisterhood of the Silver Branch, she offers year-long programs in goddess spirituality. Lunaea has been working with the tarot for more than forty years. <br /><br />Gary A. Lippincott (Petersham, Massachusetts) has won numerous awards for his fantasy art, which is in many collections worldwide. Books he has illustrated include Bruce Colville's <i>Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher</i> and Jane Yolen's <i>Come to the Fairy Ball</i>, and his cover art has graced works by such authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tanith Lee, and Charles DeLint.
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  DEATH OF A PRINCESS
  
  Nicholas Rhea
  
  PIP
  
  POLLINGER IN PRINT
  
  Pollinger Limited
  
  9 Staple Inn
  
  Holborn
  
  LONDON
  
  WC1V 7QH
  
  www.pollingerltd.com
  
  First published by Constable and Company Limited 1999
  
  This large print edition published by Pollinger in Print 2007
  
  Copyright © Peter N Walker 1999
  
  All rights reserved
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted A CIP catalogue record is
  available from the British Library
  
  ISBN 978-1-905665-42-6
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise,
  without prior written permission from Pollinger Limited
  
   **1**
  
  The shallow moorland stream rippled over sunlit pebbles behind the freshly
  leafed alders. In front of the alders, a brilliant patch of wild bluebells
  dominated the lowlying fi eld with a spread of incandescent colour. It was an
  oasis in the moors, a picturesque and idyllic sc