Strong & Clever Women

There are countless traditional stories showing the female as a survivor, a teacher, a solver of problems, and in tune with the realities of the natural world. It is only in the Victorian selection of what was printed or in the adaptations by Disney that she is missing. Women are in myths, folk and fairy tales as they are in life - strong, capable, and clever.

MISTER FOX

Lady Mary was bold and Lady Mary was pretty and Lady Mary was rich. Her parents had died, leaving her and her older brothers a comfortable amount of money. Naturally all the young men round about wanted to court Lady Mary, but she was not interested in any of them - until Mister Fox came along. Ah, but he was handsome! Thick red hair and moustaches, broad shoulders, such fine manners - and he told such grand stories. . .