Cinderella

“Cinderella; Or the Little Glass Slipper.” Tales of Past Times Written for Children, Charles Perrault, illustrated by John Austen, New York: E.P Dutton and Co., 1923, pp. 37-44.

Tale Summary A gentleman takes a second wife, a haughty woman with two equally haughty daughters from a previous marriage. He has his own daughter from his first wife, who is equally as good and beautiful as her mother. This daughter is called “Cinderella,” and is made to do menial...

Cinderella

“Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper.” The Blue Fairy Book, edited by Andrew Lang, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889, pp. 64-71.

Tale Summary After her father’s remarriage, Cinderella endures the oppression of her stepmother and stepsisters and became their servant. Her Godmother helps her out of her misery by telling her to gather some lizards and mice for a carriage and dressed her in the finest clothes. As she leaves the...

Cinderella daydreaming of the ball

"Cinderella: or, the Little Glass Slipper." Fairy Tales from France, William Trowbridge Larned, New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1920.

Tale Summary An abusive stepmother and two stepdaughters are invited to a royal ball, leaving their daughter and sister whom they call Cinderella, or Cindertail, alone. Her fairy godmother appears and grants Cinderella’s wish to go to the ball, magically providing a coach, servants, a dress, and perfectly fitted glass...

Cinderella

"Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper". New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1904.

Tale Summary An abusive stepmother and two stepdaughters are invited to a royal ball, leaving behind their daughter and sister whom they call Cinderella. Her fairy godmother appears and grants Cinderella’s wish to go to the ball, magically providing a coach, servants, a dress, and perfectly fitted glass slippers. The...

illustration from the tale, depicts an older woman speaking to a younger female child

"Finette Cendron." Fairy Tales, by the Countess D’Aulnoy, translated by J. R. Planché, London: G. Routledge and Co., 1855, pp. 227-245.

Tale Summary A King and Queen are in ruin after they were driven out of their estate. Thinking their daughters not suited to a working-class lifestyle, the Queen suggests a plan to take the three princesses, named Fleur D'Amour, Belle-de-Nuit, and Fine-Oreille, on a long journey so far from home...

Cinderella

"Cinderella." Mother Goose's Fairy Tales, London: G. Routledge, 1880, pp. 72-83.

Tale Summary This simplified version of Charles Perrault’s Cinderella includes a fairy godmother who transforms a pumpkin into a coach, mice into horses, and rats into coachmen. Cinderella receives the beautiful gown and glass slippers and attends two nights of the ball, losing her shoe on the second night. When...

Cinderella

Brothers Grimm. “Cinderella.” Grimm’s Household Fairy Tales, translated by Ella Boldey, with illustrations by R. André, New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1890, pp. 106-111.

Tale Summary In the Grimm Brothers' version of Cinderella, she had a hazel bush where a white dove makes any of Cinderella’s wishes come true. She leaves behind a small golden slipper at the ball and her two stepsisters try cutting off a toe or a heel to fit into...

Cinderella

Perrault, Charles. “Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper.” Old French Fairy Tales, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899, pp. 182-196.

Tale Summary Cinderella suffers at the hands of her stepmother and stepsister. The stepsisters are invited to the ball and Cinderella helps them prepare. After they leave, Cinderella begins to cry. The fairy godmother arrives and transforms a pumpkin and various animals into a carriage and servants to take Cinderella...

Cinderella

“Cinderella.” Fairy Tales in Easy Words, Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., [1923], pp. 3-26.

Tale Summary This version of Cinderella resembles the classic tale we have all come to know and love. Cinderella is mistreated by her two stepsisters and step mother when her father remarries later in life. Cinderella cooks, cleans, and does other chores in the house and her soot-covered clothes earn...

Cinderella leaving the carriage

Chisholm, Louey. “Cinderella.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 185-190.

Tale Summary The narrator begins by stating that Cinderella’s real name was unknown, she only became Cinderella after her father remarried. Cinderella was the family’s maid, working from morning to night for her stepmother and stepsisters. On the night of the prince’s ball, she is terribly sad because she cannot...