The Wild Girl is a fictionalized narrative of the life-long relationship between Dortchen Wild and the Brothers Grimm. Kate Forsyth has pieced together her version of events from the actual documents of the Grimms and the Wilds, filling in the blanks with inspiration from the Brothers Grimm collection of fairy tales. We know that the Wilds and the Grimms were neighbors, that Dortchen was the source for many of the Grimm’s most famous fairy tales, and that she and Wilhelm married, but unconventionally late in their […]
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The Wild Girl by Kate Forsyth