Henriette-Julie de Murat

The reviewer suspected the hand of some male, present-day, British garret-dweller. In fact, despite the title-page insistence, this book is a novel by Henriette-Julie de Murat , who seems to have supposed that MCA was...

A key text for response to her in England was The Memoirs of the Countess of Dunois, written by her self, published the same year, which was actually written by Madame de Murat .

The original authors of the tales were writers, the majority of them women, living in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier de Villandon , Henriette-Julie de Murat , Charles Perrault