Wilhelm Carl Grimm

A fairy tale by CS , O, If I Could But Shiver (recast from the brothersGrimm ), appeared in a volume edited by publisher Peter Davies of retellings of canonical tales, entitled The Fairies...

CS 's father would have liked to have her education entirely in his own hands. The first books to be her favourites were the works of W. T. Stead , and fairy stories by the...

SB knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols. Later, the scanty resources of my city childhood could not compete with the riches...

One of NJ 's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

Formative books for the child CAD were Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland (a gift from her grandfather when she was seven), Richmal Crompton 's William books (I was William the anarchist and rebel...

PLT 's mother employed a series of Irish nannies to look after and educate her children. An Irish washerwoman, Matilda, told the children fairy tales, which Helen wept over and doted on...

In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe and also of Bettina von Arnim . The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate...

The title poem reflects the influence of the brothersGrimm 's Household Tales and Joseph Jacobs 's More Celtic Fairy Tales. In a footnote AR relates her golden bird to theirs. Most of...

This is a vivid retelling of the Bluebeard story, a folktale with versions by Perrault and the brothersGrimm . In BP 's version the final wife, Fatima, is saved largely by the heroism...

As a play, The Silver Curlew shifts the story of the brothersGrimm 's Rumpelstiltskin to East Anglia, and features King Nollekens of Norfolk. It ends with an Epiphany tableau, then a harlequinade, then a bergamasque.

EW published her short historical novel The Robber Bridegroom; its title and a haunting (if humorously juxtaposed) fairy-tale element come from stories by the BrothersGrimm .

Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum called Browne's stories extremely graceful and predicted that they would rejoice the hearts of little folks who are not too proud to read about fairies. She also...

CAD 's translations from the brothers GrimmWilhelm Carl Grimm , Grimm Tales, opened at the Young Vic Theatre in stage adaptations by Artistic Director, Tim Supple .

LL published in London a volume of poetry offering a feminist perspective on fairy tales, The GrimmWilhelm Carl Grimm Sisters.