Posted in Book Review, History, tagged England, fiction on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The Queen’s Fool leads the reader deep into the heart of the Tudor Royal Courts. While most books featuring adolescent protagonists generally fail to capture my interest, this one is different. Hannah is a child forced to become a woman too quickly, which probably happened almost always in times as crushingly brutal [...]
Posted in History, tagged fantasy, literature, supernatural, witch, women on May 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From the Brothers Grimm Household Tales
A widow has two daughters, one, a beautiful stepdaughter, and the other, her natural daughter who is lazy and ugly. They make the stepchild work like Cinderella, carrying out the ashes and doing all the spinning, until her fingers bleed. One day as she [...]
