Forbidden Journeys

This “darkly entertaining” story collection is “a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" ( United Press International ).   In the 1870s and 1880s, children’s literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one that was startlingly subversive for its time. While writers such as Le