Cinderella Tales and Their Significance



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Cinderella Tales and Their Significance

Clever Maids: The Secret 

History of the Grimm Fairy Tales

 states that “These contributors were neither commoners 

nor peasants…. They were, in fact, women, and, what’s more, they were educated 

ladies.”


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 This debunks the myth that the Grimms created the tales on their own or were 

helped out by illiterate country bumpkins.  Their tales came from the memories, writings, 

and readings of educated women.  The men who helped the Grimms were more likely to 

help with research aims and copying or locating historic manuscripts for the Grimms.

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Rich sources for the Jacob and Wilhelm were their sister, Charlotte, and her friends.  The 

young ladies exchanged stories such as fairy tales with one another in a group and 

eventually became informants for the Grimms who transcribed their recitations of the 

tales for their collection.

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 These women were educated middle to upper class ladies 



rather than peasants.  The Grimms also utilized other female acquaintances by enlisting 

them to collect stories from townspeople and peasants rather than the brothers collecting 

the material themselves.

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The passage of tales from one female to another was and still is an important part 

of culture.  Paradiz states,  

For an audience of young female listeners –who were often told such tales by  

their mothers, aunts, wet nurses, family housekeepers, and washerwomen –the  

unhappy lot of the heroine was a common fairy tale theme that bound them  

together in their own shared experience of sacrifice.

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This statement is significant as it demonstrates part of the staying power of fairy tales.  It 

demonstrates how the structures of these tales create sympathy between the audience and 

the protagonist by relying on similarities between the two.  Paradiz also explains the 

function of the tales to women with,  

Young women, as they heard and told the tale of “Child of Mary” and similar  

cautionary stories, seamlessly inscribed the rules of feminine sexual conduct into  

their hearts and minds, as if drilling a lesson that must not be forgotten at any  

cost…. The content of the stories women told reflected real lived experience and 

the particular ordeals they faced as females: the raising of offspring; their  

beholdenness (economically and legally) to the institution of marriage; the  

unremitting, menial, and repetitive chores such as spinning, weaving, or even  

wrapping chocolates in paper.  In a society that privileged males with good  

educations, fairy tales offered a place where the devaluation of their intellect  

actually provided women and girls with the somewhat subversive and self- 

affirming opportunity of communicating their experiences outside the privileged 

realm of books and publishing.

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She demonstrates that fairy tales were thrilling and entertaining ways for women to 

confirm and make use of their intellect as well as to teach lessons and to spread the 

dominant expectations set upon females by the society and time period that they lived in.  

The Grimms’ original aim of preserving tales without editing them different from the 

goals of their colleague Brentano, who intentionally made alterations to the tales he 

collected though in later editions of their tale collections the Grimms also edited their 

tales or combined multiple versions of the same tale rather than presenting the word for 

word transcriptions that they had gathered.

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 Paradiz makes clear that different versions 



of the same tale were in circulation and were traditional tales that could be traced back 

many years.  She states,  

Their stories, published in the first volume of the 


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