How (Not) to Be a Stepmother
5 min readFeb 20, 2023
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…