Old French Fairy Tales
Title | Old French Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Segur |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2010-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1429011866 |
This 1920 collection includes five timeless French fairy tales written by Comtesse De Segur and illustrated by the 19 year old Virginia Sterrett.
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Title | Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwyn Reddan |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2020-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496223934 |
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett
Title | Old French Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett PDF eBook |
Author | Comtesse De Segur |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1444659553 |
Old French Fairy Tales is a collection of french folklore and fairytales, penned by Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur (1799 – 1874). Ségur was a French writer of Russian birth, best known today for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie’s misfortunes), intended for children. The anthology contains stories split into four categories: ‘Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon’, ‘Good Little Henry’, ‘Princess Rosette’, ‘Little Gay Mouse’ and ‘Ourson’. The stories in Old French Fairy Tales are accompanied by the truly beautiful illustrations of Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900 – 1931). Presented alongside the text, her illustrations further refine and elucidate Ségur’s masterful storytelling. Sterrett was an American artist and illustrator – one of the most talented, though also most tragic, of the ‘Golden Age’ illustrators. Sterrett’s illustrations are delicate yet powerful, inspired by the tradition of Art Nouveaux with its light washes of colour and sinuous black lines. She only completed three works in her lifetime, due to her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one. These include Old French Fairy Tales (1920), Tanglewood Tales (1921) and Arabian Nights (1928). Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
The White Cat
Title | The White Cat PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. San Souci |
Publisher | Orchard Books |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2000-03-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780531071700 |
The White Cat helps the youngest prince win his father's throne.
Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library]
Title | Old French Fairy Tales [eBook - NC Digital Library] PDF eBook |
Author | Sophie Ségur (comtesse de) |
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Release | 2010 |
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Old French Fairy Tales
Title | Old French Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Comtesse Sophie Desegur |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-01-28 |
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Old French Fairy Tales (Originally titled Nouveau compte de fee pour les petit enfants), was originally published in 1857. Written by Comtesse Sarah de Segur, with beautiful illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett, this book is a classic, filled with interesting stories and fantastic illustrations.
A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated by Edmund Dulac
Title | A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated by Edmund Dulac PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2018-01-31 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1528782453 |
‘A Fairy Garland – Being Fairy Tales from the Old French’ contains a collection of stories, written by Charles Perrault, Madame D’Aulnoy and Count Anthony Hamilton. These individuals were among the first writers to bring magical children’s stories into the literary mainstream, proving to their original seventeenth century readers that such works were important, enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking. The stories in this particular text encompass favourites such as Perrault’s ‘Puss in Boots’ and ‘Riquet with the Tuft’ as well as other less well-known classics such as D’Aulnoy’s ‘The Green Dragon’, ‘Princess Rosetta’ and ‘The Blue Bird’ and Count Antony Hamilton’s dazzling ‘Mayblossom’. This edition of ‘A Fairy Garland’ further contains a set of dazzling coloured illustrations by a true master of the ‘Golden Age'; Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953). A French artist himself, Dulac had a particular affinity with these Old French tales as well as a rigorously painterly background. The end result was beautifully coloured images which further refined the wonderful stories of Perrault, D’Aulnoy and Hamilton – all presented together in this book. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.