Salome: A little strip of a girl
Authors: Jane Yolen (Author), Heidi Stemple (Author), Rebecca Guay (Illustrator)
Title: Bad girls: Sirens, jezebels, murderesses, thieves and other female villains. “Salome: A little strip of a girl”
Form: Illustrated short story
Published: 2013
Location: United States
Reflections:
These authors combine the traditional story of Herodias plotting to have John the Baptist killed through her daughter’s seduction of Herod, with Oscar Wilde’s central seductive act of the Dance of the Seven Veils by the young Salome.
