Description: "An English translation of fairy tales published by women in seventeenth-century France. Explores themes of love, marriage, sexuality, gender relations, and female education and literacy. Includes works by Catherine Bernard, Catherine Durand, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de la Force, Marie-Jeanne L'hâeritier de Villandon, and Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, comtesse de Murat, with brief biographies of the authors"--
Review Quotes:
"This anthology focuses on questions related to love and how tales by the conteuses challenge contemporary Disneyfied conceptions filled with good fairies, innocent romance, and happy endings." --Journal of American Folklore
"The edition and translation are laudable and compelling and will be readily adopted in a range of courses in literature, folklore, and gender studies." --Lewis Seifert, Brown University