Cinderella is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. The protagonist is a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances who is suddenly blessed with remarkable for
Cendrillon
Italian author Giambattista Basile wrote the first literary version of the story.
La gatta Cenerentola, illustration by Warwick Goble for the Pentamerone, 1911
Cinderella: a perfect match, an 1818 painting by Jean-Antoine Laurent [fr]
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors whose work in folklore, linguistics, and literary scholarship shaped the development of moder
Cinderella
…or Tales of Past Time) in 1697 as Cendrillon, and was anglicized as Cinderella. Another version was later published in German as Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1812. Although the story's title and main character's name change in different languages, in…
Wilhelm Grimm (left) and Jacob Grimm, depicted by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1855).
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau from 1791 to 1796.
Jacob Grimm lecturing (illustration by Ludwig Emil Grimm, c. 1830)
Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, c. 1837