Marina Warner, cultural critic, novelist, historian, and children's author, has made significant contributions to fields as diverse as religious studies, contemporary art, and the history of the fairy tale. Her fiction has ranged over many genres, from novels and short stories to children's books, movie scripts, and opera librettos. Her work appears in a variety of venues and media, including popular and scholarly journals, television, and exhibition catalogues. Uniting this remarkably creative and various corpus is an interest in women: the mythic figures of history, such as Joan of Arc, the Empress Dowager of China, and Queen Victoria; the heroines of fairy tale and story, such as Mother Goose and the Queen of Sheba; women as symbols, from the Virgin Mary to the Little Old Lady of Threadneedle Street; and the ordinary women who populate the streets, lanes, and boulevards of her novels and short stories. Warner's fiction...