Stand the baby on its head
John Bayley, 22 July 1993
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
edited by Alison Luire.
Oxford, 455 pp., £17.95, May 1993,0 19 214218 6 Show More
edited by Alison Luire.
Oxford, 455 pp., £17.95, May 1993,
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales
edited by Angela Carter.
Virago, 230 pp., £7.99, July 1993,1 85381 616 7 Show More
edited by Angela Carter.
Virago, 230 pp., £7.99, July 1993,
“... fashion, with a few feminist trimmings, is in the same tradition as Ruskin’s ‘The King of the Golden River’ (1850) where his fiercely-held political, aesthetic and ecological doctrines reappear in fantastic guise. In ‘A Toy Princess’ (1877) Mary de Morgan mounts a conventional attack on the conventional Victorian miss; and Frances Browne ... ”