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Author Phelps, Ethel Johnston.

Title The Maid of the North : feminist folk tales from around the world / Ethel Johnston Phelps ; ill. by Lloyd Bloom.

Publication Info. New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1981]
©1981

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 398.2 PHELPS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J398.2 P51M    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 175-176.
Summary A collection of twenty-one folk and fairy tales from around the world featuring clever heroines.
Contents The maid of the north : a Finnish tale from the Kalevala -- Fair exchange : a Celtic tale -- Gawain and the Lady Ragnell : an English tale -- The monkey's heart : an African tale -- The twelve hunstmen : a German tale -- The old woman and the rice cakes : a Japanese tale -- The tiger and the jackal : a Punjab tale from West Pakistan -- East of the sun, west of the moon : a Norwegian tale -- The hunter maiden : a Zuni tale from the American southwest -- The giant's daughter : a Scandinavian tale -- Mulha : a South African tale -- Elsa and the evil wizard : a Swedish tale -- Maria Morevna : a Russian tale -- Duff and the devil : a Cornish tale -- How the summer queen came to Canada : a Canadian Indian tale -- The stars in the sky : an English tale -- Lanval and the Lady Triamor : a Breton/Celtic tale -- Bending Willow : an American Indian tale -- Finn magic : a Scandinavian tale -- The husband who stayed at home : a Norwegian tale -- Scheherazade retold : a Persian tale.
Subject Feminism -- Fiction.
Women heroes -- Fiction.
Feminist fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Tales.
Women heroes -- Folklore.
Folklore.
Fairy tales.
ISBN 0030568935
9780030568930
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