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Top 10 Stepmothers In Literature

First Posted: 04/05/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:25 PM ET

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"Stepmothers get what can only be called a "bum rap" in literature. From Snow White and Cinderella to Tolstoy to Judy Blume, whenever fiction needs a character to pin it on a stepmother comes in handy. Euripedes didn't help our cause when he wrote, "Better a serpent than a stepmother". And it's pretty much been that way since, with stepmothers pitted, in the main, against their stepdaughters, to create stories of two women battling for one man's attention.

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"Stepmothers get what can only be called a "bum rap" in literature. From Snow White and Cinderella to Tolstoy to Judy Blume, whenever fiction needs a character to pin it on a stepmother comes in handy...
"Stepmothers get what can only be called a "bum rap" in literature. From Snow White and Cinderella to Tolstoy to Judy Blume, whenever fiction needs a character to pin it on a stepmother comes in handy...
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joefoss
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08:50 PM on 02/03/2010
Only one "wicked stepmother" in all of Dickens?
=I guess she wasn't, technically, a step-monster; but Jane Murdstone, sister of David Coppefield's
stepfather (was Basil Rathbone ever better cast?) certainly deserves at least an "honorable mention"!
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