by Elizabeth Wilcox | May 31, 2020 | Elizabeth's Blog
Snow White and the Borgias, illustration by Douglas Smith for Mirror, Mirror Mirror, Mirrorby Gregory MaguireGenre: Historical Fantasy, Fairy Tale Adaptation (Adult) But I have come out of one death, the one whose walls were glass; I have awakened into a second life...
by Elizabeth Wilcox | May 30, 2020 | Enchanted Garden Blog
The Historical Context of Gregory Maguire’s Snow White Tale Throughout Mirror, Mirror, Gregory Maguire makes use of the historical setting of Italy in 1502-1519. He references actual places, events, and people, interspersing facts with fantasy as he chooses...
by Elizabeth Wilcox | May 29, 2020 | Elizabeth's Blog
Naked It used to represent freedom and absolute comfort. I never had my own space, never had privacy—not really. The very idea of being able to strip down and slide, naked, between the sheets of my bed, was tantalizing and titillating...
by Elizabeth Wilcox | May 22, 2020 | Elizabeth's Blog
First Edition Cover (1959) The Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonGenre: Psychological Horror No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not...
by Elizabeth Wilcox | May 15, 2020 | Elizabeth's Blog
Aftershocks When people learn how long I stayed with him, how long I dwelt with his violence and his control, they often remark upon it. Specifically, they question: how could someone like me—someone as smart as I am—stay in that...
