“Little Daylight” is a fairy tale that is included as a story within a story in At the Back of the North Wind, published in 1871. It has subsequently been published as an independent tale, and in collections of his other fairy tales.
“Little Daylight” appears in the following stories/collections:
At the Back of the North Wind
The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales
The Gifts of the Child Christ
The Complete Fairy Tales
(Source: Wikipedia)
“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did she not come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.”
Recommended Editions and Adaptations
Little Daylight: A Fairy Story, a stand-alone edition illustrated by Erick Ingraham
Articles about Little Daylight
Various Sources
‘A Sort of a Fairy Tale': Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald's Little Daylight, by Rachel E. Johnson
NORTH WIND ARCHIVE
The home page of the North Wind Archive can be accessed here.
Maturation and Education in George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales, by Dieter Petzold