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Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario's avatar

Oh I love your writing! And I always loved the sugar-bride stories - though she does need a different ending. I see her in L'Heritier's "The Discreet Princess" and Murat's "The Pig Prince" too. She deserves so much more for her cleverness.

Nike Sulway's avatar

Thank you for your kindness!

She does need a different ending! I never feel that marrying the prince really *fits* with her resistance to his charms. Here's to clever women getting the endings they *really* deserve.

Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario's avatar

I will drink a nice cup of tea to that!

Elizabeth Hopkinson's avatar

So interesting. I had forgotten the sugar bride from the Tale of Tales, but I have retold the marzipan husband tale from it. And stories in which the bride is replaced by a doll.

Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario's avatar

Oh, I love the marzipan handsome! I enjoy the daughter's sassiness.

Nike Sulway's avatar

Thanks so much, Elizabeth! So interesting that you've done a reworking of this tale. It's a relatively little-known one, I think (?). But you're right that there's a strong link to the doll-bride tales. I quite like that, in lots of these tales, there's very little or no magic/supernatural elements even though they're so clearly fairy tales.