Once a story is released, and its copyright expired, it’s free to be re-interpreted. Although there are those that deny it, any reading is a form of interpretation. I’ve been gathering information on Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” for some time now, and I’ve just finished reading Alyssa Palumbo’s The Spellbook of Katrina Van Tassel: A Story of Sleepy Hollow. This novel is a feminist retelling from the point of view of the titular Katrina. In the original she’s an under-developed character. These days we’d say that Irving didn’t write women ...
