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Title The teller's tale : lives of the classic fairy tale writers / edited by Sophie Raynard.

Publication Info. Albany, N.Y. : Sunny Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 183 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors. This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's life became - with his participation - a fairy tale in itself. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteen-year-old Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy conspired to kill her much-older husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and much-needed volume provide a historical context for Europe's fairy tales."--Project Muse.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales.
Authors -- Biography.
Authors -- Biography.
Children's literature, European -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, European.
Fairy tales -- Authorship.
Fairy tales -- Authorship.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Added Author Raynard, Sophie.
Other Form: Print version: Teller's tale. Albany, N.Y. : Sunny Press, ©2012 9781438443553 (DLC) 2011048282 (OCoLC)769871172
ISBN 9781461917960 (electronic book)
1461917964 (electronic book)
9781438443560
1438443560
9781438443553
1438443552