Huh, the original version of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears fairy tale is a bit different: “An impudent old woman enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears…”
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The old one about stories having to be censored to protect the children I guess.
Per this post, I checked and it looks like that an old English professor from college, although something of a leftist, did her share at cleaning up fairy tales for the kids. In her defense, she had seven kids and raised them solo a good part of the time. So I respect the need for a gig... Still, unfortunate. (Ditto the need for money because none of her jobs and work paid *that* well.)
Perhaps fittingly, the 'romantasy' book club I'm in with a dozen other middle-aged women (who love a well-endowed shadow daddy) recently stumbled upon this upcoming release: https://www.bloombooks.com/9781464281907-crucible-deluxe-edition-tp.html
According to the NYT this past weekend, "In this captivating retelling of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears,” Aurelia is a disgraced celebrity whose plane crashes in the remote Canadian wilderness, leaving her the sole survivor. Instead of three bears, however, she finds three brutal, reclusive mountain men — and she doesn’t have to choose just one bed.”
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