How (Not) to Be a Stepmother

Nina Jervis
5 min readFeb 20, 2023
Photo by Fabrizio Frigeni on Unsplash

You say “wicked”, I say “stepmother”.

Everybody knows her. She’s the evil cow who abandoned Hansel and Gretel in the forest. She poisoned Snow White with a blood-red apple. She used Cinderella as unpaid slave-labour, whilst lavishing love and riches upon her own daughters.

The “wicked stepmother” isn’t the sole preserve of the Brothers Grimm and their like, though. The ancient Greek…

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Nina Jervis

Writer and professional empathiser (not necessarily in that order).