Mopsa the Fairy was one of Jean Ingelow's most popular works, about a boy who discovers a nest of fairies and discovers a fairyland while riding on the back of an albatross.
A boy, Jack, discovers a nest of fairies in an old thorn tree and is taken off to fairyland on the back of an albatross. On the way he visits a country where the inhabitants are clockwork and frees the Fairy Queen from an enchantment.