The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900

by Shawn C. Jarvis (Editor), Jeannine Blackwell (Editor)

This exciting and comprehensive anthology—the first anthology of German women's fairy tales in English—presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. These authors of these stories used fairy tales to explain their own lives, to teach children, to examine history, and to critique society and the status quo. Powerful and conflicted females are queens, girls on quests, mothers, daughters, magical wisewomen, and midwives to the fairies; they love, hate, murder, save children, fight tyranny, overcome cannibals, and rescue the working poor.
Jeannine Blackwell's introduction places the tales in their historical, social, and critical context, and Shawn C. Jarvis's afterword presents a thematic analysis of the texts and approaches to reading them in conjunction with other European and American tales.

Genres: Germany, Folklore, Anthologies, Fairy Tales, Fiction

388 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Nicole Ulbricht · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some stories are not as fascinating as others, but some of these fairytales are WILD. crazy to believe that some of the stories were for kids. I took a German fairytale class which had this book as a requirement. I even read the stories not assigned for class! Fragrance of Flowers was one of my favorites! Highly recommend