Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher nature walk A brilliant offering

A brilliant offering

Which is why I did a little happy dance when these books from Firefly Books arrived in the mail recently

ISBN: 9780486428406

two damselflies peer at it in wonder

Tom Lichtenheld loves drawing pictures and telling silly stories

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher nature walk A brilliant offeringIn many ways themselves restricted to the status of children, Victorian women were less inclined than the men of their time to idealize childhood and the children's stories they wrote often tended to be darker and wilder than those of their male counter parts. As the eleven brilliant stories collected here demonstrate, these fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered