what's a fisherman wife
The Fisherman and His Wife illustration by Alexander Zick. The Fisherman and His Wife is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19. It is AarneâThompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife. Its theme was used in The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. Virginia Woolf has her character Mrs. Ramsey in To the Lighthouse read a version of the story to her son, James.