Welcome to another Grimms’ Fairy Tales and their Afterlives podcast. In this episode, we present the 1857 7th edition translated by Ashliman in 2002.

This time, we will have our reader present the Ashliman translation of the 1857 final version of Snow White from the Grimms’ tales. Their source for this tale was Marie Hassenpflug and other sources for variants with which they modified her telling. It was one of the original tales included in the first edition and had already undergone substantial changes by the second edition in 1819. A curiosity is that in German the title indicates a low German origin, but the tale is recorded by the brothers in high German. Several of the changes include the transformation of her envious mother into a stepmother, and the apple being dislodged by a stumbling while carrying her glass coffin, while originally it was knocked out when an angry servant slapped the slumbering princess... But enough about the many variants, let's get to our tale for this episode - number 53, Little Snow White.

This time we have an updated version of the Cinderella story. This one is provided to us by Angela Carter with her posthumously published "Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost. Three Versions of One Story" from 1987. In this version, our narrator ironically questions the assumptions of the fairy tale, and proposes alternate variations, pointing out inconsistencies and breaking down stereotypes, all in order to construct new versions for us that still reside within the tradition. And now, for our eleven labs reader's rendition of Angela Carter's "Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost."