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An Important Announcement from CdF
Apologies to anyone who tried to visit the site late last week, only to find that it was down. We’ve been experiencing a lot of technical glitches lately and have been very unhappy with the way our host has been handling certain things. Because of this, we decided to move the website to a new host and with that move we have given the site a new domain. We apologise again if this causes confusion, but we believe it was the best thing we could do for the site and for you, our readers.
This site will remain static until October 1 of this year, at which point this domain will forward to the new one. This should give everyone plenty of time to update their links, their RSS feeds … Read entire article »
Filed under: Our Grim(m)oire
Green Witch
Green Witch
by Alice Hoffman, 2010
Reviewed by Donna Quattrone
Green Witch is the sequel to Green Angel, Hoffman’s spellbinding foray into the land of post-apocalyptic fairy tale. Both of these books detail a lyrical and deeply memorable exploration of love intertwined with loss, but either of the pair may be read on its own.
Green Witch begins one year after the cataclysmic event that reshaped Green’s life. She has finally taken off the outward … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Reviews
New Issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest online
The tenth issue of Scheherezade’s Bequest is now live, offering stories and poems by Eric Marin, Claire Massey, Joshua Gage, Sonya Taaffe, Bruce Woods, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Patricia Russo, Rachel Manija Brown and more. In this issue we introduce you to the art of Lucy Campbell, whose work illustrates Olivia V. Ambrogio’s The Handless Maiden (revisited). Lucy captures the fearful wonder of the dark forest in vivid colours and firm strokes, using fairy tales and myth as her inspiration. We’ll be seeing more of Lucy’s art here on the site, as she has agreed to talk with us about our shared love of fairy tales.
We’d like to especially thank Nurul Huda for allowing us to publish her essay The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim’s Princess Shawl which … Read entire article »
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The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim’s Princess Shawl
The Heroic Journey in Shirley Lim’s Princess Shawl
by Nurul Huda
This article will be discussing a work of an author that is no stranger to the Malaysian literary scene. Or, as a matter of fact, to the Singaporean, Hong Kong and American literary scene. Many Malaysian students knows her from studying her poem “Monsoon History” in our secondary school English syllabus, and most university students study her short story “Mr. Tang’s Girls” for … Read entire article »
Filed under: Articles & Essays, Featured
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
By Julie Phillips, 2006
Reviewed by Tanya B. Avakian
Before she died, James Tiptree, Jr. was a secret shared between a few obsessed readers. Many of us were pointed in her direction—she was a woman by then—after reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s introduction to Tiptree’s short story collection, Star Songs of an Old Primate. Those who went on to read Tiptree’s stories may also have learned … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Reviews
Neverland: J.M. Barrie, The Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
Neverland: J.M. Barrie, The Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan
By Piers Dudgeon, 2009
Reviewed by Tanya B. Avakian
Fairies are found the world over, but the fairy folk we think of when we hear the word are quintessentially British. Several things are true of the British fairies in particular, and are worth remembering in case one should happen to encounter them. The fairies have trouble reproducing: their greatest delight is in stealing … Read entire article »
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The Fairy Tale Tarot
The Fairy Tale Tarot
by Lisa Hunt, Llewellyn, 2009.
Reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy
The Fairy Tale Tarot by Lisa Hunt comes neatly packaged with the book Once Upon a Time in which Hunt briefly touches on the history of the fairy tale before expansively describing the major and minor arcana, each of which comes with a fairy tale of its own. Tarot such as this aren’t so much divinatory tools as they are guideposts through … Read entire article »
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From Folklore to Literature: The Märchen and the German Romantic Movement
From Folklore to Literature: The Märchen and the German Romantic Movement
Charles Haddox
When the early German Romantic writers and critics, a group that included Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich von Hardenberg (known by the pen name Novalis), and Ludwig Tieck, began taking stock of the new literary approach they were creating, it is little wonder that they saw themselves at the forefront of a movement which had the potential to change not only literature, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Articles & Essays
The Handless Maiden (revisited)
The Handless Maiden (revisited)
By Olivia V. Ambrogio
Once there was a woman whose father cut off her hands.
He said there were reasons for cutting off her hands; he said he was coerced. The devil made him do it; he needed her to marry, and apparently with hands she put up too much of a fight. We don’t know what her mother was doing during all of this.
But no one wanted her … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Issue 10 (May 2010)
Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales
Terry Jones, 1981.
Reviewed by Erzebet YellowBoy
Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales leapt out at me from the shelf of a used book shop in one of those happy moments when two of your beloved worlds collide. The stories were written for Sally Jones in the summer of 1978, according to the dedication, and even though this book was first published in 1981, it wouldn’t do to have a site devoted to fairy tales that … Read entire article »
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CdF in Print
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making began as a book-within-a-book in Catherynne M. Valente's adult novel, Palimpsest, a part of the protagonist’s childhood, a strange novel for children written in the 1920s, about a young girl spirited away to Fairyland by the Green Wind, and her adventures there, battling the wicked Marquess, befriending outlandish creatures, and growing up. Available to read online with donations requested.
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