The Wild Girl
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To write this book, I had to read many books and articles – and many, many fairy tales! I cannot list them all here but I must mention a few that were utterly invaluable to me: Fairy Tales: A New History by Ruth B. Bottigheimer; Grimms’ Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales by Ruth B. Bottigheimer; One Fairy Story Too Many: The Brothers Grimm and their Tales, by John M. Ellis; The Reception of Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions, edited by Donald Haase; The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy by Donald R. Hettinga; The Brothers Grimm by Ruth Michaelis-Jena; The Owl, the Raven and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy; The Brothers Grimm and Folktale, edited by James M. McGlathery; Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales, by Valerie Paradiž; Paths Through the Forest: A Biography of the Brothers Grimm, by Murray B. Peppard; ‘Why Not “Old Marie” … or Someone Very Much Like Her? A Reassessment of the Question about the Grimms’ Contributors from a Social Historical Perspective’ in When Women Held the Dragon’s Tongue and other Essays in Historical Anthropology by Hermann Rebel; Brüder Grimm Kinder-und-Hausmärchen: Die handschriftliche Urfassung von 1810 with commentary by Heinz Rölleke; The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar; The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World by Jack Zipes; and Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales, translated and annotated by Jack Zipes.
Finally, I need to thank my German translator, Barbara Barkhausen, who helped me greatly with my research, and, last but definitely not least, Irmgard Peters – a direct descendant of Rudolf Wild – who translated Dortchen’s memoir and Wilhelm’s diaries for me, plus gave me many small details of family oral history passed down through the generations, including the fact that Rudolf had ginger whiskers.
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About the Author
KATE FORSYTH is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, ranging from picture books to poetry to novels for both children and adults. She has won numerous awards and been published in fourteen countries around the world. She is a direct descendant of Charlotte Waring, the author of A Mother’s Offering to her Children, the first book for children ever published in Australia. She lives by the sea in Sydney with her husband, three children, a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback, a bad-tempered black cat, and many thousands of books.
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By Kate Forsyth
Bitter Greens
The Wild Girl
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