Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. KnoepflmacherIn 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

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