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

4.0

I didn't know much about the Brothers Grimm going into this, only the mythology around them; they traveled around Germany gathering folk stories and publishing them. Wrongy wrong wrong. Thanks, Paradiz, I can add all this to my self important "fun facts". Jacob Grimm was in fact a librarian (adding to my list of famous librarians, alongside Casanova, Clara Breed, Gratia Countryman, and Batgirl), and Wilhelm was a sickly scholar. And the fairy stories they gathered were usually courtesy of the ladies in their lives, usually friends of the family. Not that these women were ever credited because hurray for misogyny! It is interesting that these women's voices become the voices of the German Volk. Take of that what you will.

I like you, Paradiz. Good job!