Turnip Princesses And Boy Cinderellas: A Rediscovered Collection Of Fairy Tales Is Even More Different From The Grimms Than You’d Think

“Working just a few decades after the Brothers Grimm, Schönwerth considered scholars his natural audience, and as a result the tales he recorded are bawdier, racier and significantly more scatological than the collection the Grimms published under the title Children’s and Household Tales.” The English translator of a new collection tells us more.