A review by mandimsadler
Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiž

3.0

This history was brief (thankfully) and engaging enough. The historical info was woven neatly throughout with Grimm's actual fairy tale summaries, which was a nice touch. The key info (that the brothers actually got their stories from aristocratic female friends) was really new to me and I'm glad someone wrote a book about it. I fell asleep reading this though, and it took me longer than I wanted to spend to get through the whole thing.