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Colin Burrow: Grimm Tales, 20 March 2025
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
by Ann Schmiesing.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, January,978 0 300 22175 6 Show More
by Ann Schmiesing.
Yale, 336 pp., £25, January,
“... several of those which were clearly not, notably Puss in Boots and Bluebeard, from later editions.Ann Schmiesing’s very thorough biography shows the way the activities of the Grimms as both philologists and folklorists (and medievalists too) grew from a wider network of German Romantic nationalists. These included the Roman lawyer Friedrich Carl von ... ”
