"The Grammarian's Five Daughters"
| Title | "The Grammarian's Five Daughters" |
| Year for Search | 1999 |
| Authors | Arnason, Eleanor [Atwood](b. 1942) |
| Secondary Title | Realms of Fantasy |
| Volume / Edition | 5.5 |
| Pagination | 38-41, 65 |
| Date Published | June 1999 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Female author (b. 1942). |
| Full Text | 1999 Arnason, Eleanor [Atwood] (b. 1942). “The Grammarian’s Five Daughters.” Realms of Fantasy 5.5 (June 1999): 38-41, 65. Rpt. in her Ordinary People: A Collection (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2005), 6-20; and in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 41-49. PSt Eutopian fantasy in which a poor grammarian gives each daughter a sack of words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions respectively), and they go off and find a country without those words. Releasing the words transforms each country for the better. Ultimately all five countries are united. Female author. |
