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[frameshift]

Last one. 7d Pink-and-white heroine of Victorian fairy story (7) R?S?L?A
I'm beginning to think that this is RUSALKA, but I don't see the pink-and-white connection to the opera. Any ideas? Thanks.

[emmie]

think it might be
Rosalia

[frameshift]

Yes, I'd thought of that, but again I can't see the connection and being TLS a czeckeslovakian opera seemed likely.

[emmie]

pink and white rose...

[emmie]

other than that no idea.

[frameshift]

I'm going to with it, but ................ Thanks.

[frameshift]

Well I got two wrong. There's an alternative spelling for 4d and maybe Rosalia may be wrong, also. I can't see any other candidate. Can't wait for the solution.

[factor-fiction]

Have you discounted the Rosalba suggestion on your other thread?
There is a reference here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_and_the_Ring

However I can't see the pink and white connection.

Rosalia does mean rose and I assume there's a pink and white one called Rosalia, but i can't see a reference to Rosalia in fairy stories

[factor-fiction]

Sorry- your last post wasn't there when I started typing mine.

[slaney]

Rosalba - (Rose + Alba) from Thackeray's fairy story the Rose and the Ring...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_and_the_Ring

[slaney]

That will teach me to have a cup of coffee before replying!

[slaney]

...and should have explained Alba=white in Latin.