Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher Biotechnology and contemporary naturalists

and contemporary naturalists

when the family is shown by the fireside with steamy mugs and pet dog--a cozy contrast to the fraught outdoor adventure

She would eventually move to the countryside full-time

" -- Lost and Found Books

Eliot to Jane Kenyon -- contemplatives such as Henri Nouwen

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers by Nina Auerbach, U.C. Knoepflmacher Biotechnology and contemporary naturalistsIn 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