Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy and subersive fairy tales

[ArabellaScott]

Stumbled on this article.

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/fairytale-author-marie-catherine-daulnoy-wrote-a-rebellion/

'In 1600s Paris, one woman undertook an act of rebellion. Her weapon was fairy tales.

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy — who'd been married off at 15 to an abusive man three decades her elder — slipped messages of resistance into her popular stories, risking jail in the process.

D'Aulnoy lived in a punishing patriarchy: women couldn't work or inherit money, and were forbidden from marrying for love.

Through her work, she showed an alternative.'

And her fairy tales can be read here:

archive.org/details/fairytalesmadam00dgoog/mode/2up

That link wasn't working for me but this one does in case anyone has the same problem:

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/fairytale-author-marie-catherine-daulnoy-wrote-a-rebellion/11627040

Oh, thanks ditalini! I had tried to tidy it up ...

Very interesting, thank you

Love this! Thank you for sharing Arabella! I want a book of her stories, in the original, as she wrote them.

Might be museum pieces, Daisies?

Perhaps Arabella, then they could be collected into a book. A project for when the children leave home I think if no one else gets round to it first. Please anyone who has the time and inclination do it sooner! Makes me mad how women’s creative work or the name of the woman who made it gets lost in so many cases. Writers, composers, artists etc.

Sounds like a lively project.