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Shannon McHugh

Shannon McHugh is a scholar of French and
Italian Renaissance literature and the assistant director of research at the Huntington. She is the author of Petrarch and the Making of Gender in Renaissance Italy and is working on a book about the Library of the Walt Disney Studio.

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The Hidden Hand of Bianca Majolie

Walt Disney’s first female storyteller supplied the heartfelt narratives that helped Snow White, Bambi, and Pinocchio become some of the studio’s most memorable films.