Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher Biotechnology ISBN: 9780870716966

ISBN: 9780870716966

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when the family is shown by the fireside with steamy mugs and pet dog--a cozy contrast to the fraught outdoor adventure

Eliot to Jane Kenyon -- contemplatives such as Henri Nouwen

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher Biotechnology ISBN: 9780870716966In 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