Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance : The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun, Jane Harrington

Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance : The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun, Jane HarringtonNew Hardback Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales these are their stories. In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, actually coined the term 'fairy tale' and some of these stories contain many

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