A (history of) a Cinderella Story

“Fairy tales, like all forms of human creative expression, are surely worthy of thoughtful reflection” - Alan Dundes; “Cinderella, a Casebook”

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“Fairy tales…are not simply works of imagination but are expression of the peasants’ hopes and struggles” - Robert Darnton, French Fairy Tales: Essays on a Major Literary tradition

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“Popular tales…mark the critical point at which imagination, hallucination, and literature - three phases of human experience, meet and remain still distinguishable” - RD Jameson, Cinderella in China