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To the Editors: In “The Meaning of Mother Goose” [NYR, February 2], historian Robert Darnton devotes approximately 80 percent of his essay—the last four fifths—to demonstrating that the original tales of the Mother Goose genre reflect the ugly, dirty, and often brutal circumstances of seventeenth-century French peasant life. He believes that the tales, of which … 
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The Caldecott-winning couple has stepped in to finish Twain's 'The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine.'
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Fairy tales were originally women’s stories, but the versions we know today were scrubbed clean
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Someday, my daughter will ask me why there are so few mothers in fairy tales. Or rather, why there are so few living mothers. Mothers are nowhere and
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Author, critic and long-time scholar of fairy tales Marina Warner recommends the best books of, or about, the rich and vital fairy tale tradition
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Another great collection of fairy tales to consider reading is: Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Classics), edited and translated by Peter Wortsman.
Marina Warner writes fiction and cultural history. Her books include From the Beast to the Blonde (l994), the novels Indigo (l992) and The Leto Bundle (2000), and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011). She has curated exhibitions, including The Inner Eye (l996), Metamorphing (2002-3) and Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing (2005). Her essays on art will be collected in Art & Enchantment (forthcoming). In 2015, she was awarded the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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