Today the Mirror published a piece by Professor Bill Gray to mark the 150th anniversary of Jacob Grimm’s death:
Grimms’ Fairy Tales exerted a profound influence on many generations, and defined what a fairy tale is
As we mark the 150th anniversary of Jacob Grimm’s death, literary history professor Bill Gray looks at why his work became a classic
Jacob Grimm died 150 years ago today, four years after his younger bother Wilhelm.
Together they changed forever the face of literature, especially children’s literature, with their collection of stories usually translated into English as Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
This book came to dominate all other fairy-tale collections, and especially through the Disney animations, has exerted a profound influence on many generations. The Grimms came to define what we think a fairy tale is.
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