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The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real

A stuffed rabbit learns from the old Skin Horse what it means for a toy to become Real.
  • Margery Williams (1881–1944)
  • First published 1922
  • Short story
  • Available online · Awaiting physical preservation
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The Velveteen Rabbit

This eBook is courtesy of the Celebration of Women Writers, online at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/. THE Velveteen Rabbit OR HOW TOYS BECOME REAL by Margery Williams

Provenance

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Source

First edition, Heinemann, London, and George H. Doran, New York (1922). The source transcribes a later Doubleday printing; William Nicholson's illustrations are not imported. The source drops the decorative initial T of the first word ("HERE was once"), and the archive keeps the text as the source has it.

Transcribed text: ebook 11757 at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11757, released there 2004-03-01 (that is the transcription's date, not the book's). Copied 2026-10-30. Its own record says: “Public domain in the USA.”

Checksums (SHA-256): source file adfaa230d437d9532dc54fdd3fea86c1b9b9de44710e9089087306757ed3e0c2; prepared text 88c2db72e7f66a6cc171695484eaf1bbb69823edcea7828fd25f6c63ca728959.

Changes to the text

  • The source's header, licence, footer and production credits were removed.
  • Line breaks inside paragraphs were joined; paragraphs and short-line blocks such as contents lists were kept.
  • Underscores marking italics were removed.
  • Extra spaces were collapsed.
  • No illustrations were imported; captions stay as text.

Rights

  • First published before 1931: public domain in the United States.
  • The author died before 1956: out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years.

Public domain in the United States (first published 1922); the author died in 1944, so also out of copyright where protection lasts the author's life plus 70 years. Not reviewed country by country beyond that.

Text only. The source's licence, trademark and boilerplate are removed, so the archive does not use the source's name as a mark; the source is cited as provenance.

Reviewed 2026-10-30, batch seed-2026-10. Archive editions credit the original author; Aurelune printed them and claims no rights in the text.