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[Jeremy Beacock]

> I remember reading a book about folk tales, title escapes me, 
> something like 
> Beauty & the beast--sort ofa feminist view of how e.g. the 
> brothers grimm 
> basically updated the oral tales bandied about by local 
> women, to make such 
> stories less harsh. #

Marina Warner. _From the Beast to the Blonde_. Saw her talk a couple of
times, and she gave the BBC Reith Lectures a few years back. Said some
interesting things, IIRC, so the book may be worth looking at, if not
directly relevant. 

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