JamesWhitehead
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This is a more interesting story.
A very carelessly-written piece, I'm afraid.
To take just two obvious errors: the Grimms themselves presided over the watering-down of their tales, when it became evident that the market for them was younger than they had anticipated. The English reprints just followed the later German editions, where mothers became step-mothers etc. The reference to The Three Bears, at the end, does not make it clear that this political fable was the work of Southey. The intruder was not a overly-particular young woman but a female vagrant, who was rewarded for her trespassing by a broken neck!
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