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Blogs by Dorlana Vann
The Original Fairy Tale Writers
8/20/2008 6:37:44 AM
Mini bios of 3 of the orginal fairy tale writers/collectors.
The Original Fairy Tale Writers
Listed below are mini biographies of three original fairy tale writers/collectors. I’ve had the links to The Grimm Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson on my blog (www.dorlana.blogspot.com) sidebar since I started Supernatural Fairy Tales blog, and I have referred to them many times. Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s tales are fairly new to me. I plan to explore her work and use one of her tales for inspiration for next month’s supernatural short story.
Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d'Aulnoy
French Writer Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1650/1651-1705) not only wrote fairy tales, she gave them their name. She was the first person to use the phrase “fairy tales” when she named her collection of short stories, les contes de f’ee (Tales of Fairies). Her life story is quite interesting as well. When she was 16 years old, she married a man 30 years her senior. It is rumored that she, with the help of her mother, accused him of treason. I found this great article about her written by Terri Windling. And you can read d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales in at Surlalune Fairy Tales.
The Grimm Brothers
Jacob Grimm 1785-1863
Wilhelm Grimm 1786-1859
The German born Grimm Brothers began to collect folktales in 1806 and then published their first book containing 86 tales, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children' and Household Tales) in 1812. They went on to publish over 200 stories in 6 more editions. Besides their collective work, they also had individual nonfiction titles. A really great website with all kinds of information about them, including some of their fairy tales in their orginal form can be found at the informative Grimm Brothers website compiled by Professor D. L. Ashliman .
Hans Christian Andersen
Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen’s (1805-1875) first collection, The Improvisatore; Fairy Tales, Told for Children, was published in 1835. He wrote and published 23 more collections between 1835 and 1872, which totaled 168 fairy tales. You can follow this link to the complete list of Anderson’s 168 tales, most with working story links.
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