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S8 Ep3: Midnight Mother Goose, Part 3

The Whispering Gallery

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Episode  ·  30:53  ·  Apr 25, 2026

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Lean in dear listener as together, we disentangle some of the fairy tale contributors who were not of the farming or peasant vein after all. Some lived as far away as across the street, another, a widow, sold garden vegetables at the market between storytelling to make ends meet for her multi-generational home, and one of the Grimm’s sources came from a huguenot, French background--so our friend Charles Perrault and his Mother Goose tales has made another appearance, summoned like Rumplestiltskin.Over 50% of the stories in the Grimm's collection were shared by  women who were educated and middle class, some were aristocrats. The illustrators of fairy tales and nursery rhymes were more than an incognito first initial last name and together we can lean into a "restoration" of these artists and storytellers, while incomplete, we will follow the breadcrumb path of understanding as we wrap up our 3 part series on Midnight Mother Goose.Join the Whispering Gallery Podcast online:www.whisperinggallerypodcast.comhttps://www.facebook.com/whisperinggallerystories patreon.com/whisperinggallery  https://buymeacoffee.com/suznikart  Thank you to the music, sound and audio engineers at Pixabay and FreeSound for making the background to this episode more interesting. Whispering Gallery podcast show music: v2 Spellcraft 142264 Pixabay Music for Videos Fairy Tale Fantasy 123608 Kjartan Abel A Track Called Birthday Perfect for Intros 608397 Background Documentary Piano 186934 Greg Orquendel Mozart Lacrimosa Requiem in D Minor K 740597 Soulprodmusic, Mysterious Forest Creepy Lofi Halloween Music 168238 Image Source: "Snow White and Rose Red" (source). From A Child's Book of Stories by Penrhyn W. Coussens (link to page), illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. New York: Duffield and Company, 1911.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsnowred.jpg

30m 53s  ·  Apr 25, 2026

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