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Before her modernist masterpiece, Virginia Woolf wrote The Life of Violet. (Wikimedia Commons and Princeton University Press)

'A cottage of one’s own': Virginia Woolf’s early fairy tales published after a century

October 28, 2025 12:49 pm

The Life of Violet review: A newly discovered set of Virginia Woolf’s early fairy tales, “The Life of Violet,” reveals the modernist icon as a playful young writer imagining women who could be giant, fearless, and free.

Five classic fairy tales, but not the versions you were told as a child.

Grimm reality: The twisted origins of 5 famous fairytales

July 30, 2025 9:52 pm

Before Disney turned them into magical tales, these stories were filled with violence and grim endings.

Why fairy tales need updates to survive

January 07, 2022 6:42 pm

Classic fairy tales are being revisited and diverse characters added. But even H.C. Andersen and the Brothers Grimm modified stories to reflect the values of their time.

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International Fairy Day 2019: Eight princess books to raise a feminist

June 24, 2019 1:56 pm

International Fairy Day: From a feisty retelling of Snow White to a princess who lives it up in a pigsty, these offbeat stories about princesses are fun, while sending the message of feminism.

In Fairy tales at Fifty, Upamanyu Chatterjee serves up characters who are cruel and vile

December 07, 2014 1:20 am

Fairy Tales at Fifty leads with the story of the pauper, Angulimala, a young runaway constantly in need of sexual conquest, which is incomplete if it does not end in murder.