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Alfred Döblin
(1878–1957), German writer.From the very outset of his career he incorporated a variety of fairy-tale motifs in his work, even in his celebrated novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). He wrote ...
Alphonse Daudet
(1840–97)Popular French novelist. Influenced by naturalism, he is best known for his portrayal of life in his native Provence in Lettres de mon moulin (1869: Letters from my Windmill) ...
Anatole France
(1844–1924), French literary and social critic, journalist, and author whose real name was Jacques Anatole François Thibault. In the late 1870s, after having established himself as an editor and ...
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
(b Liège, 8 Feb. 1741; d Montmorency, Paris, 24 Sept. 1813).Flemish-born French composer. His father was a violinist at a Liège church, and Grétry became a choirboy there. He ...
Angela Carter
1940–1992)British writer whose imaginative novels, which blend fantasy with realism, have won her a cult following.Born in Eastbourne, Angela Stalker was brought up in Yorkshire and London, failed to ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1863–1944), British author, academic, and anthologist who adopted the pen name Q. Born in Bodmin, Cornwall, his love of that county and of the sea influenced much of his fictional ...
ballet and fairy tales
The traditional association of classical ballet with the fairy tale is based not merely on the fame of such ballets as Swan Lake, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, but on ...
Béla Bartók
(b Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Romania), 1881; d NY, 1945).Hung. composer, pianist, and folklorist. Parents were musical and mother gave him his first pf. lessons. In 1894 at Bratislava (then ...
Bluebeard Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room which contained the bodies of his previous wives. His last wife, ...
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Bluebeard Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
“Bluebeard” was an oral tale until Charles Perrault presented his literary version in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (
‘Bluebeard’ Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
made its literary debut in Charles Perrault's *Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories or Tales of
Charles Nodier
(1780–1844) French writer and librarian, first in his native Besançon.In 1824, Charles X put him in charge of the Arsenal. There Nodier held a famous salon frequented by the ...
Charles Perrault
(1628–1703),French writer, is remembered today for a collection of fairy tales published under the name of his son Pierre: Histoires et contes du temps passé (1697), subtitled ‘Contes de ma Mère ...
Emma Donoghue
(1969– ), Irish novelist, playwright, and scholar.Donoghue's Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (1997) is a series of linked retellings of twelve well-known fairy tales. One character in ...
Étienne Delessert
(1941–), Swiss illustrator born in Lausanne and now living part-time in Connecticut. From 1959 to 1974 he was a graphic artist for advertising agencies and made many artistic posters. In ...
feminism and fairy tales
Feminists have an abiding interest in the socio-historical and cultural contexts in which literature arises and is received, how women have helped shape and contributed to traditions, and how women ...
Franz von Pocci
(1807–76), German dramatist, poet, painter, and composer,who wrote numerous fairy-tale plays for the puppet theatre. Aside from drawing illustrations for collections of fairy tales by Perrault, the ...
Fred Solomon
1853–1924), British-born playwright-composer-director.Born in London to a musical family, Solomon had an extensive career as a performer first in London and, after emigrating to America in 1886, on ...
Frederick W. N. Bayley
(1808–53), English writer, poet, and journalist.Aside from writing travel books, he was the author of Comic Nursery Rhymes (1846), which contain hilarious parodies of ‘Bluebeard’, ‘*Little Red Riding ...
