Fairy Tale expert to open exhibition

Happily Ever After is pleased to announce that Dr Caroline Webb, an academic at the University of Newcastle, will formally open the exhibition on midday Saturday 11^th June. Caroline Webb studies and teaches English literature since 1900, focusing on Modernism and on contemporary fiction, especially fantastic fiction.  She is particularly interested in how recent British women writers have rewritten fairy tales to think about the female life: her publications include discussion of A.S. Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" (Hecate 29, 2003), Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" (in Literature and Sensation, Cambridge Scholars 2009) and Jeanette Winterson's "Story of the Twelve Dancing Princesses" (in Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales, Lampeter 2011).  She is currently serving as Secretary of the Australasian Children's Association for Research and is working on a critical book on British fantasy literature.