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Forever Acting Alone: The Absence of Female Collaboration in Grimms' Fairy Tales

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Mendelson, M. Forever Acting Alone: The Absence of Female Collaboration in Grimms' Fairy Tales . Children's Literature in Education 28, 111–125 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022427318133

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