A blog post celebrating Marilyn Monroe, Mary Rodgers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Cynthia Erivo, and other strong sisters for Women's History Month 2026.

A blog post celebrating Marilyn Monroe, Mary Rodgers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Cynthia Erivo, and other strong sisters for Women's History Month 2026.

A guest post by Jane Harrington, including an extract from her retelling of Mme d'Aulnoy's 'Belle-Belle ou le Chevalier Fortuné'

A guest post by Jane Harrington, including an extract from her retelling of Mme d'Aulnoy's 'Belle-Belle ou le Chevalier Fortuné'

books are never words alone, plus the founding mothers of fairy tales

A blog post about Persinette, a fairy tale written by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force and retold by the Brothers Grimm as Rapunzel.

By Jane Harrington My new book, Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance, was born of a desire to bring to readers the lives and works of 17th-century salon writers who created the first fairy tale craze an...

Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories. In 17th century...