The story of Girl Without Hands and its themes have appeared in literature and other forms of art. This page provides a small discussion of some of the better known treatments by authors and other artists.

Literature   Poetry   Music   Film   Theatre

Literature: Novels

Oates, Joyce Carol. Do With Me What You Will. New York: Vanguard, 1973.
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NOVEL: A novel about a pathologically passive woman set in the 1960s.

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Poetry

Atwood, Margaret. "Girl Without Hands." Morning in the Burned House. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
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Atwood, Margaret. "Girl Without Hands." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 162.
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You can read the poem on the Endicott Studio website at Girl Without Hands.

Carlson-Bradley, Martha. "The Maiden Without Hands." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 36.
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Gonzales, Rigoberto. "The Girl With No Hands." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 195.
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Lipkin, Elline. "Conversation With My Father: After Grimm's 'The Maiden Without Hands." The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. Jeanne Marie Beaumont and Claudia Carlson, editors. Ashland, OR: Story Line Press, 2003. p. 249.
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Nystrom, Debra. "The Girl Without Hands." Virginia Quarterly Review. 2005.

You can read the poem on the Virginia Quarterly Review website at The Girl Without Hands.

Sexton, Anne. "The Maiden Without Hands." Transformations. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.
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Music

I have listed primarily classical compositions of music using the themes of this fairy tale in either ballet, opera or some other musical style. I have also provided links to popular recordings of the music when available at Amazon.com. The advantage to these links is that you can listen to samples of the music at no charge.

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Film

To learn more about these films, please visit the
Internet Movie Database.

None so far!

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Theatre

None so far!

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