Note 248 — Chapter V · LITERARY ESTIMATE
Reading edition
Cf. (a) The Blue Fairy Book ... edited with an Introduction by Andrew Lang ... [Large Paper], London, 1889. Introduction: “Though published in 1697, Perrault’s Contes de ma Mère l’Oye do not seem to have been Englished till 1729. A version is advertised in a newspaper of that year, but no copy exists in the British Museum.”
(b) English Fairy Tales, collected by Joseph Jacobs ... third edition ... New York, 1898, p. 229. Notes. “In the middle of the last century the genius of Charles Perrault captivated English and Scotch children.... Cinderella and Puss-in-Boots ... ousted Childe Rowland, and Mr. Fox and Catskin. The superior elegance and clearness of the French tales replaced the rude vigour of the English ones. What Perrault began, the Grimms completed. Tom Tit Tot gave way to Rumpelstilzchen.... The English Fairy Tale became a mélange confus of Perrault and the Grimms.”
(c) The Countess D’Aulnoy’s Tales of the Fairies was translated in 1707.