Genre Fiction Lineage · Section
Fairy Tale Editions
Fairy tales compared edition by edition, with named printings side by side to show what a later text softened in a tame edit and what it made harsher.
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Lineage essay
Perrault's 1697 Little Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf eating her; the huntsman's rescue is in the Grimms' 1812 text. Three texts compared stage by stage.
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Picture credit
"Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf" by Gustave Doré, 1867 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Red_Riding_Hood_(136547615).jpg — Public domain (US: published in Paris in 1867; Germany and France: Doré died 1883 (GND), and the engraver signing Pannemaker was at work by 1867 (presumed out of copyright from his working years; first name and dates not checked), so 70 years after death have run out); modified: cropped from the full book page, desaturated and contrast adjusted on Wikimedia Commons before download
Edition comparison
In the Grimms' 1812 Snow White the jealous queen is her own mother; the 1819 edition makes her a stepmother. Thirteen passages compared in three editions.
Picture credit
"Blanca Nieve y los siete enanos" by José Guadalupe Posada, 1900 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_MET_DP869499.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
Edition comparison
Perrault's 1697 book has eight prose tales; the Grimms' notes pair seven with tales in their 1812 edition, and two of those are absent from 1819 to 1857.
Picture credit
"Puss in Boots by the river" by Gustave Doré, 1867 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puss_in_Boots_(136548352).jpg — Public domain (US: published in Paris in 1867; Germany and France: Doré died 1883 (GND), and the engraver signing Pannemaker was at work by 1867 (presumed out of copyright from his working years; first name and dates not checked), so 70 years after death have run out); modified: cropped from the full book page, desaturated and contrast adjusted on Wikimedia Commons before download
Lineage essay
The Grimms' 1812 note says Schulz told Rapunzel in 1790 from an oral source; a 1913 reference dates La Force's Persinette, with 14 of 17 stages alike, earlier.
Picture credit
"Rapunzel (eene soort salade), No. 69: the climb" by anonymous printmaker (published by C. Burckardt's successors), 1889 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rapunzel_(eene_soort_salade)_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-OB-200.889.jpg — CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/); modified: one of the sixteen pictures cropped from the full sheet with its printed frame line, without its caption; no other change
