The “w” is pronounced like a “v.” Malwinka is firmly ensconced in the power struggle happening in Poland after World War II. In Cinderella’s Shoes, I get to introduce the other line of the stepsisters and their matriarch, Malwinka. I just love this name for a villain, even though it means “loved by the people.” She has sons who do her bidding for her and inadvertently tip Kate off to the potential power of the shoes. In Cinderella’s Dress, readers are introduced to one line of stepsisters, headed by the matriarch Ludmilla. In adapting the classic Cinderella tale to my 1940s novels, the descendants of the stepsisters had to be involved. They are the ultimate mean girls, given permission for their awfulness by their own mother. What great villains Cinderella’s stepsisters make.
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