Backstory: Retracing Annie Londonderry's Victorian odyssey
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Part 2: A 19th-century woman's break with tradition - and '15 minutes of fame' - rediscovered.
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How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an overseas Olympics?
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Andrew Motion, Britainâs current poet laureate, has written a childhood memoir that is Arcadian in the golden sense, though not without pain.
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1. "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield
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A pioneer of scatter art goes back to her hometown with more high-glamour fantasies.
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A fascinating blend of musical, melodrama and feminist fairy tale, âLaaga Chunari Mein Daagâ shows Bollywoodâs moral universe in transition.
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Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author.
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The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
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Comment is free: Alan Rusbridger: The Guardian you read today - whether on newsprint or on a screen - has its roots in the struggle for suffrage and free speech.
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A 19th century English classic is the basis for Indian director Mira Nair's "Vanity Fair" but she and her star Reese Witherspoon have transformed the novel's scheming heroine into a feminist ahead of her time.
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The story behind an exhibition: postcards, designs, photography, travels, history, stamps and law enforcement.
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The fairy tale revisited, 25 years after Grace Kellyâs death.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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How a hurt feline brought present and past together.
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Travel: Rory MacLean: Robert Macfarlane's journey into the wildest corners of Britain and Ireland put the wonder back into familiar landscapes.
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THE circus that changed traditional entertainme
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Namrata Shirodkar on Bride And Prejudice.