{"id":12187,"date":"2019-03-12T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:00:50","slug":"i-review-a-collection-of-pre-wwi-socialist-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2019\/03\/i-review-a-collection-of-pre-wwi-socialist-fairy-tales.html","title":{"rendered":"I Review a Collection of Pre-WWI Socialist Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at First Things<\/em>:<\/p>\n

When I was a girl, I had a picture book,\u00a0The Day the Fairies Went on Strike<\/em>. This 1981 confection by Linda Briskin and Maureen FitzGerald, with charmingly ragged illustrations by Barbara Eidlitz, told a simple story of fairies overworked by their selfish bosses, the Mefirsts. They meet a little girl whose mother is on strike and decide to follow the mom\u2019s example. They win reduced workloads so they can better meet little girls\u2019 wishes. Perhaps under the influence of this book, I staged my own strike at school, demanding the right to wear shorts during P.E. My one-child picket line (my sign read, NO SHORTS\u2014NO SMILES!) was not exactly a protest against economic injustice; it was also significantly less successful than the fairies\u2019 efforts.<\/p>\n

Briskin and FitzGerald were working in a fine old tradition. In\u00a0Workers\u2019 Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain<\/em>, Michael Rosen collects more than forty short stories published in socialist-leaning magazines between 1884 and 1914.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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