Skip to content
Lucy Writers Platform

Lucy Writers Platform

  • Home
  • About us
    • About LWP
    • Editors
    • Writers
    • About Lucy Cavendish
    • Constitution
  • My Cambridge
    • Lucy Interviews
    • Lucy Features
    • Postgraduate Corner
      • My Research Articles
  • Write for us
    • Submissions and Contact
    • Special editions
    • Directory
  • Writing
    • Arts
      • Art and design
      • Books
      • Dance
      • Fashion
      • Film and Media
      • Music
      • Theatre
    • Creative Writing
      • Fiction
      • Flash Fiction
      • Poetry
      • Resources
    • Environment
    • General
    • Health and Wellbeing
      • Lucy Features
      • Short read
    • Interviews
    • Opinion
    • Politics
      • Features
      • My Feminisms
    • STEM

Tag: Brothers Grimm

Child’s Play: Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell

5th April 202014th April 2020  Jo Hemmings

Katherine Rundell’s essay is a brilliantly smart and engaging defence of the importance of children’s literature for all readers, of all ages, writes our arts contributor Jo Hemmings.

Read More “Child’s Play: Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bloomsbury Books, Brothers Grimm, C S Lewis, Charles Perrault, Covid-19, Daemon Voices, fairy tales, J R R Tolkien, Katherine Rundell, Philip Pullman, Roald Dahl, Rooftoppers, The Explorer

Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread – a surreal and fantastical story about mother-daughter relationships

20th May 201920th May 2019  Carla Plieth

Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, Gingerbread, surreally blurs fact and fiction in a tale involving three generations of women who love to bake.

Read More “Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread – a surreal and fantastical story about mother-daughter relationships”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Barbara Comyns, Brothers Grimm, Emily Dickinson, Fiction, Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi, magic realism, Novel, Surrealism

Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

29th April 201930th April 2019  Victoria Smith

Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.

Read More “Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth”
Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Thousand Acres, Anna Leszkiewicz, Brothers Grimm, Cambridge Literary Festival 2019, Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Fen, Fiction, Greek Myth, Greek Mythology, Jane Smiley, Man Booker Prize, Novel, Oedipus, Penguin, Revolting Rhymes, Roald Dahl, Vintage

Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain

24th January 201924th January 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

Greek myths and Arthurian legends are colourfully brought to life in Tate Britain’s latest exhibition, Edward Burne-Jones.

Read More “Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain”
Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Brothers Grimm, Circe, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Legend, Mantegna and Bellini, Medieval Revival, Myth, Pre-Raphaelites, Romances, Sleeping beauty, Tate, Tate Britain, The Briar Rose, The National Gallery, The Wine of Circe, Victorian Art, William Morris
  • An interview with author Siân Hughes: ‘the heart of the mystery is this dangerous ground of motherhood’
    By Rym Kechacha
  • Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
    By Julia Bagguley
  • In conversation with Ennatu Domingo: ‘To belong somewhere new, you have to feel at peace with the place you left behind’
    By Emily Walters
  • About us
  • Writers
  • About Lucy Cavendish
  • Write for us
  • Submissions and Contact
  • Special editions
Top