The Wild Girl: Library Edition

from MickyFine

Dortchen Wild fell in love with Wilhelm Grimm at first sight when she was twelve. Living next door to the Grimms for many years, she finds occasional respite from her harsh home life in the warmth provided by her best friend Lotte Grimm and the Grimm family. As Wilhelm and Jakob begin to collect ...

from ArmchairAuthor

Though Bitter Greens had three heroines suffering, The Wild Girl is three times more brutal to read. Most people (of European descent) know of the folktale collection compiled by the Brothers Grimm, but few know about the women who told them the tales. One of these storytellers was Dortchen Wild....

from DarkFaerieTales

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales Quick & Dirty: Dark and tortured look into the life of the girl who would one day marry Wilhelm Grimm. This is a historical fiction that will have you contemplating the nature of life in the early 1800s. Opening Sentence: 'Wild by name and wild by nature,' Dor...

from pennsylady

The Wild Girl is an interesting, sometimes explosive tale of early 19th century German life. It was a time of tyranny and terror. Napoleon Bonaparte wants to conquer all of Europe, and Hesse-Cassel is one of the first kingdoms to fall. The historical backdrop was poverty stricken tragedy. Admidst...

from muddyboy

The title of the book refers to the last name of it's heroine. This is the story of a young lady who was the next door neighbor of the Brother's Grimm of fairy tale fame and if the author's research is correct orally feeds him over a quarter of the stories in their books. The novel's backdrop is ...