Forbidden Journeys

Nina Auerbach

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction

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Part One: Refashioning Fairy Tales

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The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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Beauty and the Beast, Anne Thackeray Ritchie

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Beauty and the Beast (continued)

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The Brown Bull of Norrowa, Maria Louisa Molesworth

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Amelia and the Dwarfs, Juliana Horathia Ewing

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Part Two: Subversions

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Nick, Christina Rossetti

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Christmas Crackers, Julian Horathia Ewing

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Behind the White Brick, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Melisande, or, Long and Short Division, E. Nesbit

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Fortunatus Rex & Co., E. Nesbit

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Part Three: A Fantasy Novel

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Mopsa the Fairy, Jean Ingelow

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Mopsa the Fairy (continued)

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Part Four: A Trio of Antifantasies

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Speaking Likenesses, Christina Rossetti

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Biographical Sketches

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Closing Notes

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