Mary Hoffman: What was the first fairy tale you can remember?
Katherine Langrish: Probably Briar Rose, aka the Sleeping Beauty. I’d be about seven or eight and was sent to read the story of Briar Rose to the headmistress of my little school…
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I was delighted to be invited by Dr Caroline Oates of the Folklore Society to attend the Katharine Briggs Award 2016 at the Warburg Institute, on 9 November. I was…
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To begin with Tolkien: though mortal, Hobbits don’t seem to have a theory of the afterlife. Innocent, rural, physical, they thoroughly enjoy this life’s pleasures and die with a sense…
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A new blog post, Slippers of Glass, Slippers of Fur, in which I investigate shoes in folk-lore and fashion and find out what Cinderella’s glass slippers might really mean.
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The author and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland, whose book ‘The Seeing Stone’ (first of his ‘Arthur’ trilogy) won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2000, has praised ‘Seven Miles of Steel…
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A debate in Haworth run by the Bronte Parsonage Museum to ‘decide’ which was Charlotte Bronte’s best novel…
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