Wilhelm Carl Grimm

PLT 's mother employed a series of Irish nannies to look after and educate her children. An Irish washerwoman, Matilda, told the children fairy tales, which Helen wept over and doted on...

SB knew her alphabet at three, and learned to read quickly once she suddenly perceived that the letters were symbols. Later, the scanty resources of my city childhood could not compete with the riches...

Formative books for the child CAD were Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland (a gift from her grandfather when she was seven), Richmal Crompton 's William books (I was William the anarchist and rebel...

One of NJ 's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

A fairy tale by CS , O, If I Could But Shiver (recast from the brothersGrimm ), appeared in a volume edited by publisher Peter Davies of retellings of canonical tales, entitled The Fairies...