The story of the Whispering Gallery Podcast's Midnight Mother Goose continues from part 1 where we roamed the woods of France with Charles Perrault's fairy tales to read at salon's prior to the age of enlightenment.

Across the Rhine river in Germany and many years later, the Grimm Brothers were gathering fairy tales from family, friends, aristocrats, multilingual sources--including women of French and Huguenot backgrounds and we begin our sampler of the illustrators from the golden age of children's book illustration with Gustave Dore and Arthur Rackham. Stay tuned for the rest of the story in Part 3!

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Mother Goose is not a particular person, although some have tried to claim there was one, but a Mother Goose was a -collection- of beloved stories.

Tonight our story takes us into a place of disquiet through dark coniferous forests with copses of fir and spruce trees. Strangely, at times these dark forests seem to bio-locate between Germany and France in Mother Goose stories and fairy tales of the Brother Grimm. Geographically the countries are next door neighbors.

Thankfully the world that these stories reside in is an imaginary place where some shockingly mean-spirited humans make life harder for others, curses, vile cannibals and horrific serial killers, even talking wolves are key players as the villains.

But also, a magic midnight time-spell, a cursed prince, impractical glass heels, treasure, griddle cakes for grandmother, alchemy: spinning straw into gold, grouchy dwarves, good fairies, angels…

The world of fairy tales is a safe space for us to observe the dire consequences of bad judgment and the magic that could happen to everyday people...

Image Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RRH_Walter_Crane_1875.jpg Description: Crop of Illustration from the toy book Little Red Riding Hood (link to page). London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Source https://archive.org/details/LittleRedRiding00Cran/page/1 Author | Walter Crane (1845–1915)

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- Adrian Gomar
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