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Cinderella is the heroine of a tale by the French fabulist Charles Perrault, but her story has become the exemplary form of one of the most widespread folktales, in which the heroine overcomes neglect by her father and abuse from her stepmother and stepsisters to attain the height of good fortune.
Various forms of the tale[edit]
- Cenerentola by Giambattista Basile, 1634
- Cinderella by Charles Perrault, 1697
- Finette Cendron by Madame d'Aulnoy, 1697
- Ashputtel by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, 1812–57
- Katie Woodencloak by Peter Christen Asbjörnsen, Popular Tales from the Norse, 1843
- Cinderella by Vittorio Imbriani, 1877, trans. Thomas Frederick Crane, Italian Popular Tales, 1885
- The Three Princesses by János Kriza, The Folk-tales of the Magyars, 1889
- The Wonderful Birch by Andrew Lang, Red Fairy Book, 1890
- Fair, Brown, and Trembling by Joseph Jacobs, Celtic Fairy Tales, 1892
- Rushen Coatie by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 1894
- Cinder-Maid by Joseph Jacobs, Europa's Fairy Book, 1895
Related tales in other languages[edit]
- French: Cendrillon
- German: Aschenputtel
- Italian: La Gatta Cennerentola
- Norwegian: Kari Træstak
- Russian: Zolotoj bashmachok
Reference[edit]
- "Cinderella," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Cinderella," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin and, Cap O' Rushes, Abstracted and Tabulated with a Discussion of Medieval Analogues and Notes. Marian Roalfe Cox (Introduction by Andrew Lang). London: Folk-Lore Society, 1893. (transcription project)
Poetry[edit]
- "How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe", Guy Wetmore Carryl. Grimm Tales Made Gay, 1902.
Modern prose retellings[edit]
- "A Modern Cinderella", Louisa May Alcott. Atlantic Monthly, October 1860