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 the prince discovers that her foot fits in the glass slipper and decides to marry Cinderella, her stepsisters “crave” her forgiveness, but we do not learn what becomes of them. Cinderella marries the prince a short time later.
Fairy Tale Title
Cinderella
Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)
None listed
Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)
Edward Henry Corbould, Alfred Henry Forrester, William McConnell
Common Tale Type
Cinderella
Tale Classification
ATU 510A
Page Range of Tale
pp. 72-83
Full Citation of Tale
"Cinderella." Mother Goose's Fairy Tales, London: G. Routledge, 1880, pp. 72-83.
Original Source of the Tale
Charles Perrault
Tale Notes
This is a simplified version of Charles Perrault’s tale intended for young readers.
Research and Curation
Anonymous ITAL 4600 student, 2020
Book Title
Mother Goose's Fairy Tales
Book Author/Editor(s)
None listed
Illustrator(s)
Edward Henry Corbould, Alfred Henry Forrester, William McConnell
Publisher
G. Routledge
Date Published
1880
Decade Published
1880-1889
Publisher City
London
Publisher Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Rights
Public Domain
Digital Copy
Available at the CU Digital Library
Book Notes
For every full page of text, there is a full-page, black-and-white illustration. On the cover of the book, we see Cinderella and her fairy godmother, with a mouse trap and rat trap depicted on the right side of the image. This book is part of a Mother Goose series published by Routledge that included Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes, Mother Goose’s Melodies, Mother Goose’s Jingles, Mother Goose at Home, and Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales.
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"Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper". New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1904.
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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.
Perrault, Charles. “Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper.” Old French Fairy Tales, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899, pp. 182-196.
“Cinderella.” Fairy Tales in Easy Words, Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., [1923], pp. 3-26.
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