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Article: Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
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- Research & Teaching in Developmental Education
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- April 1, 2005
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Paradiz V. (2005). Clever Maids: The Secret of the Grimm Fairy Tales. New York: Basic Books.
The Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, are best known for their volumes of fairy tales such as Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin. To a smaller group of scholars, they are also known as early linguists, and memorialized in Grimm's Law, a description of predictable consonant shifts in human language over time. In her new book, Clever Maids, Valerie Paradiz (VP) combines these two facets of the Grimm brothers and adds a third: the true source of their tales and goal in collecting oral folk tradition for publication.
The brothers ...