Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Jeannine Blackwell "The Queen's Mirror: The Historical Context of German Women's Fairy Tales" Prologue: Gisela von Arnim: "The Ghost Lady" Catherine the Great: "The Fairy Tale of Fewei" Lulu Brentano Jordis: "The Lion and the Frog" [Benedikte Naubert]: Velleda, a Magic Novel [Sophie Tieck]: "The Old Man in the Cavern" anon.: "The Giant's Forest" Tian [ps. Caroline von Gunderrode]: "Temora" Bettina von Arnim: "The Queen's Son" Amalie von Helwig: "The Symbols" Anna von Haxthausen: "The Rescued Princess" Caroline Stahl: "The Godmothers" Amalie Schoppe: "The Diligent and Kind Housewife" Agnes Franz: "Princess Rosalieb, A Fairy Tale" Fanny Lewald: "A Modern Fairy Tale" [Louise Dittmar]: "Tale of the Monkeys" Sophie von Baudissin: "The Doll Institute" Gisela von Arnim: "The Nasty Little Pea" "About the Hamster" Marie von Olfers: "Little Princess" Villamaria [ps. Marie Timme]: "The King's Child" Elisabeth Ebeling: "Black and White" Hedwig Dohm: "The Fragrance of Flowers" Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: The Princess of Banalia Henriette Kuhne-Harkort: "Snow White, Freely Adapted from the Grimms" Carmen Sylva [ps. Elizabeth, Queen of Rumania]: "Furnica, or The Queen of the Ants" Anon.: "The Red Flower" Ricarda Huch: "Pack of Lies" Epilogue: Gisela von Arnim: "Wedding Day" Afterword: Shawn C. Jarvis: "From the Cradle to the Grave: Some Thoughts on Reading these Tales" Permissions and Credits List of Abbreviations Works Cited Notes

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First anthology of German women's fairy tales in English written from 1780-1900

About the Author

Shawn C. Jarvis is a professor of German and chair of Foreign Languages at St. Cloud State University. Jeannine Blackwell is a professor of German at the University of Kentucky, president of Women in German, and coeditor of Bitter Healing: German Women Writers, 1700–1830. An Anthology (Nebraska 1990).

Reviews

"The tales in The Queen's Mirror open a window into the literary culture of nineteenth-century Germany, telling of the quest for romance, wealth, power, justice, and, most importantly, a way home. While women writers produced fairy tales with an astonishing range and play, their work has been effaced by the popular success of the Grimms' fairy tales. With this ambitious archaeological project, Jarvis and Blackwell reclaim stories that are up close and personal, but also culturally symptomatic, broadening our understanding of the anxieties and desires of an earlier era."--Maria Tatar, author of Classic Fairy Tales. "In this outstanding anthology, the editors/translators present a cross-section of tales by German-speaking women from various walks of life."--Library Journal