The woman who coined the term ‘fairy tale’ risked prison to write coded messages of rebellion
RN By Anna Kelsey-Sugg for Late Night Live Updated 7 Nov 2019, 11:55am In 1600s Paris, one woman undertook an act of rebellion. Her weapon was fairy tales Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy — who’d been married off at 15 to an abusive man three decades her elder — slipped messages of resistance into her popular stories, risking jail in the process. D’Aulnoy… Continue reading The woman who coined the term ‘fairy tale’ risked prison to write coded messages of rebellion