BOOKS
Alexander, Skye. Mermaids: The Myths, Legends, & Lore. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2012.
Allen, Rev. A. W. Cornelius H., ed. The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes & Queries. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, 1886.
Andersen, Hans Christian. Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Translated by Mrs. H. B. Paull. London: F. Warne, 1898.
Arnold, Matthew. The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849.
Baker, Thomas Jerome. Myths, Monsters & Love from the South of Chile. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
Bane, Teresa. Encyclopedia of Giants and Humanoids in Myth, Legend, and Folklore. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016.
Barber, E. J. W. The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Benwell, Gwen, and Arthur Waugh. Sea Enchantress: The Tale of the Mermaid and Her Kin. New York: Citadel Press, 1965.
Briggs, K. M. An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1976.
Broome, Dora. Fairy Tales from the Isle of Man. Douglas, IoM: Norris Modern Press, 1970.
Bulfinch, Thomas. Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable. Boston: S. W. Tilton & Co., 1855.
Byron, George Gordon. Hebrew Melodies. London: John Murray, 1815.
Cadet, J. M. The Ramakien: The Thai Epic. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1971.
Cullen, Frank, Florence Hackman, and Donald McNeilly. Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performances in America. New York: Routledge, 2006.
D’Arras, Jean. Mélusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012.
Dennison, Walter Traill. The Orcadian Sketch-Book. Kirkwall, SCT: W. Peace and Son, 1880.
Desai, Santosh N. Hinduism in Thai Life. Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1980.
Douglas, George. Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales. London: W. Scott, 1901.
Drewal, Henry, ed. Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits and Its Diasporas. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2008.
Evans-Wentz, Walter. Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. New York: Citadel Press, 1994. First published in 1911 by H. Frowde, London.
Fouqué, Friedrich de la Motte. Undine. Translated by F. E. Bunnett. London: Griffith & Farran, 1885.
Froud, Brian, and Alan Lee. Faeries. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978.
Gachot, Theodore. Mermaids: Nymphs of the Sea. San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1996.
Gibson, Emily, and Barbara Firth. The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2005.
Gregor, Walter. Notes on the Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland. London: Pub. for the Folk-lore Society by E. Stock, 1881.
Hall, Manly P. The Secret Teachings of All Ages. San Francisco: H. S. Crocker, 1928.
Haney, Jack V. An Anthology of Russian Folktales. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009.
Harrison, Jane. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion. Cambridge University Press, 1903.
Hill, Colleen. Fairy Tale Fashion. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016.
Hilton, Alison. Russian Folk Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Samuel Butler. New York: Dutton, 1900.
Hunt, Robert. Popular Romances of the West of England: The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall. London: Chatto & Windus, 1903.
Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries. London: George Bell & Sons, 1892.
Kellerman, Annette. How to Swim. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918.
Kendall, Laurel, and Mark A. Norell, with Richard Ellis and the American Museum of Natural History Exhibition Department. Mythic Creatures: And the Impossibly Real Animals Who Inspired Them. New York: Sterling Signature, 2016.
Kennedy, Patrick. Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts. New York: Macmillan, 1891.
Lee, Henry. Sea Fables Explained. London: W. Clowes and Sons, Ltd., 1883.
Levi, Vicki Gold, and Lee Eisenberg. Atlantic City: 125 Years of Ocean Madness. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. New York: Pantheon, 1955.
Luchs, Alison. The Mermaids of Venice: Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art. Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2010.
MacKillop, James. A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Madeira, Grace L. Sailors’ Valentines: Their Journey Through Time. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2006.
Marwick, Ernest. The Folklore of Orkney. Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 2011.
Milliken, Roberta. Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012.
Milton, John. Comus: A Mask. London: Humphrey Robinson, 1637.
______. Paradise Lost. London: G. Routledge, 1887.
Morrison, Sophia. Manx Fairy Tales. London: D. Nutt, 1911.
Pedersen, Tara E. Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Pelland, Maryan, and Dan Pelland. Images of America: Weeki Wachee Springs. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Phillpotts, Beatrice. Mermaids. London: Russell Ash/Windward, 1980.
Raina Mermaid. Fishy Business Handbook for Mermaids. Halifax: Halifax Mermaids, 2016.
Roberts, Russell, and Richard Youmans. Down the Jersey Shore. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Rose, Carol. Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 2000.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Ballads and Sonnets. London: F. S. Ellis, 1881.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Edited by Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
______. The Comedy of Errors. Edited by Stephen Greenblatt. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
South American Mythology. Memphis, TN: Books, LLC, 2010.
Tennyson, Alfred. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
______. Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1842.
Turgeon, Carolyn. Mermaid. New York: Broadway Books, 2011.
Vinycomb, John. Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1906.
Wilde, Oscar. A House of Pomegranates. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1891.
Wood, Reverend J. G. Trespassers: Showing How the Inhabitants of Earth, Air, and Water Are Enabled to Trespass on Domains Not Their Own. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1875.
Yeats, William Butler. Collected Poems: Definitive Edition, with the Author’s Final Revisions. New York: Macmillan, 1956.
______. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott, 1888.
ARTICLES
Bender, Marylin. “Norell Likes Capes, Black for Dresses and an Elongated Torso.” New York Times, July 17, 1963.
Bowles, Hamish. “Rodarte Spring 2015 RTW.” Vogue, September 9, 2014. http://www.vogue.com/fashion-week-review/1067765/rodarte-spring-2015-rtw.
Chandler, Charlotte. “My Dinners with Federico and Michelangelo.” Vanity Fair, March 2012. http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/03/federico-michelangelo-201203.
Conniff, Richard. “Mad About Seashells.” Smithsonian, August 2009. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/mad-about-seashells-34378984.
Crowther, Bosley. “THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ‘Million Dollar Mermaid,’ With Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, at Music Hall.” New York Times, December 5, 1952. http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9a01e2dc1f3ce23bbc4d53dfb4678389649ede. Accessed March 5, 2017.
Drewal, Henry. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits and Its Diasporas” (exhibition preview). African Arts 41, no. 2 (Summer 2008). http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/afar.2008.41.2.60.
Long, April. “The Truth About Crème de la Mere.” Elle, August 24, 2016. http://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/a37936/la-mer-the-dream-cream.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. “‘Oyster’ Dress, Irere, spring/summer 2003.” Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. Accessed July 16, 2017. http://blog.metmuseum.org/alexandermcqueen/oyster-dress-irere.
Miss America. “Our History.” Accessed July 15, 2017. http://missamerica.org/our-history/.
Morris, Bernadine. “A Talk with Normal Norell.” New York Times, October 15, 1972.
______. “Styles Through History: Roots of New New Look.” New York Times, August 7, 1976.
Mower, Sarah. “Spring 2008 Couture: Jean-Paul Gaultier.” Vogue, January 22, 2008. http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2008-couture/jean-paul-gaultier.
New York Times. “King Neptune Opens Seashore Pageant.” September 7, 1922. http://nyti.ms/2uDayNb.
New York Times. “The Manatee: Prosaic Basis of Mermaid Tales—An Unattractive Monster.” July 21, 1878.
Saroya, Tricia. “A Magical Midsummer Night’s Dream Party.” Faerie Magazine, Summer 2014.
Schoeneman, Deborah. “Mermaids Past and Present Keep Things Real.” New York Times, January 6, 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/fashion/06mermaids.html.
Turgeon, Carolyn. “Carmindy and Mermaid Makeup.” I Am a Mermaid, March 14, 2011. https://iamamermaid.com/2011/03/14/carmindy-and-mermaid-makeup.
______. “Destination Snapshots.” Faerie Magazine, Winter 2013.
______. “Eric Ducharme, the Mertailor.” Faerie Magazine, Winter 2013.
______. “‘Former’ Weeki Wachee Mermaid Vicki Smith.” I Am a Mermaid, June 7, 2011. https://iamamermaid.com/2011/06/07/former-weeki-wachee-mermaid-vicki-smith.
______. “Henry Drewal Talks About Mami Wata, Sacred Water Spirit.” Faerie Magazine, Winter 2013.
______. “Life Underwater.” Faerie Magazine, Winter 2013.
______. “Tim Gunn Talks About Mermaids.” I Am a Mermaid, January 23, 2011. https://iamamermaid.com/2011/01/23/tim-gunn-talks-about-mermaids.
INTERVIEWS
Brusso, Andrew. Telephone interview, March 21, 2017.
Buttigieg, Benny. E-mail interview, July 9, 2017.
Ducharme, Eric. Telephone interview, March 23, 2017.
Gaultier, Jean Paul. E-mail interview, June 27, 2017.
Georgiadis, Bonnie. Telephone interview, July 3, 2017.
Hankins, Virginia. Telephone interview, March 1, 2017.
Rambo, Pat. Telephone interview, March 14, 2017.
Roberts, Abby. Telephone interview, April 29, 2017.
Short, Robert. Telephone interview, March 8, 2017.
Shyne, Kathy. Telephone interview, April 28, 2017.
Smith, Rachel. Telephone interview, March 23, 2017.
Smith, Vicki. E-mail interview, April 16, 2017.
Sutter, Raven. E-mail interview, May 6, 2017.
Wolbert, Linden. Telephone interview, June 23, 2017.
Zigun, Dick. Telephone interview, March 2, 2017.
WEBSITES
Schiaparelli. Accessed March 1, 2017. http://www.schiaparelli.com.
Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. Accessed April 15, 2017. http://weekiwachee.com.