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For @FairyTale_Tues, an Irish fairy tale in which the heroine, Margaret, elopes with a prince, saves him and his entire crew from a sea monster, and fights a giant: https://t.co/udK6DYafBp #strongheroines #fairytaletuesday
As 'The Rings of Power' and all things Tolkien are trending on twitter, here's a post from 2012 for the 75th anniversary of the publication of 'The Hobbit' - which means it's close to 85 years ago now - when I had a Hobbity Weekend. It may still amuse! https://t.co/8oOAkwSJDC
"Perelandra's Green Lady is part mother-goddess, part Mother-of-God, but we can learn much of Lewis’s (1941) views on more ordinary women from the strategies of temptation to which she is subjected." A post about the adult women in CS Lewis's fiction. https://t.co/fAEeE6unKB
'The Mastermaid cuts the lad’s finger and lets three drops of blood fall. She piles up all the old rags and rubbish and drops them into the cauldron, fills a box with powdered gold...and off she goes wi’t king’s son.' https://t.co/mpz7vuqfwX #FairyTaleTuesday #magicworkinggirls
In memory of @ShirleyHughes whose books have brought so much joy to so many children (and parents).
And in 'Maid Maleen' another young woman survives seven years’ imprisonment in a dark tower, chipping her way out through the wall after her country has bee laid waste by war. Fortitude is also courage. #IStandByUkraine https://t.co/7zAT9JXiMe
@BtGS_pod @JulietEMcKenna 'A Thousand Beginnings and Endings' ed. Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, 'The Girl with the Ghost Eyes' by M H Boroson, 'Moribito, Guardian of the Spirit' by Nahomo Uehashi, 'Star Daughter' by Shveta Thakrar, 'The Beast Slayer' by Nahoko Uehashi...
An Irish girl, Margaret, escapes a sea-serpent, fights the Giant of the White Doon, and saves her sweetheart Simon, the son of the King of the Eastern World. @EnchantedEzine #FairyTaleTuesday https://t.co/SXXcUr5BLf #adventures #mysteriousplaces
Another Grimms' heroine for #FairyTaleTuesday. The long-enduring Maid Maleen, like many other princesses, chips her own way out of a tower; but this fairytale is an extraordinary study of post-traumatic stress.
In which I argue that the Grimms' Cinderella, 'Aschenputtel', can quite easily be read as a tale of revenge. #fairytaletuesday https://t.co/SmNh94ZFAD