Their only chance to be together rested on the success of the story collection. Wilhelm and Dortchen fell in love, but due to her overbearing and abusive father and both families extreme poverty, they were unable to marry.
The greatest of these sources was Dortchen Wild, she told Wilhelm the tales of The Frog King, Hansel and Gretel and Rumpelstiltskin among others. As an act of defiance to the occupation, the Grimm brothers began collecting old stories from neighbours and friends with an aim to publish a book and preserve some of the German folklore. Set during the French Revolution, a time of war and poverty under Napoleon’s occupation, The Wild Girl tells the story of two poor neighbouring families, the Grimms and the Wilds. This is their dramatic and passionate story - one of the greatest untold love stories in history. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen Wild was the source of some of the most powerful and compelling stories in the famous fairy tale collection, and the true love of Wilhelm Grimm. Kate will be launching her new book Wild Girl published by Vintage Australia available for attendees at 20% off RRP The novel is richly rewarding, even with the difficult material it contains.Join us for a glass of champagne with Kate Forsyth on Wednesday, 13th March at 6:00 p.m. The romance between Wilhelm and Dortchen is beautifully realized from beginning to end, and the barren in-between time desolate and painfully hard to endure. Can they solve their problems? Will they ever again see each other?įorsyth produces an impeccably researched novel, with some achingly beautiful prose. Unfortunately, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, Dortchen’s father’s descent into abusive alcoholism, and the brothers’ move into exalted circles wrench Dortchen and Wilhelm apart. Dortchen’s imagination and innocence make her a believer in and collector of fairy tales, which becomes a useful commodity when Wilhelm and Jakob, two of the brothers, start collecting local folktales to be printed.ĭortchen becomes infatuated with Wilhelm, a feeling she holds onto all of her adolescence, and one that slowly blossoms into shared love as she and Wilhelm reach adulthood.
Dortchen has as many sisters as the Grimms have brothers, which is why she becomes best friends with the only female Grimm sibling, Lotte.
At turns beautiful and gruesome, much like the fairytales that surround and weave through it, it chronicles the largely unknown life of Dortchen Wild, a next door neighbor of the sprawling Grimm family. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy-tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. This is an extremely difficult book to rate. The Blue Rose By: Kate Forsyth Publishers Summary One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century.
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