Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont

Standard Name: Le Prince de Beaumont, Jeanne

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Publishing Radagunda Roberts
RR 's version of a novel by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont , The Triumph of Truth, or Memoirs of Mr. De La Villette, written at the request of John Hawkesworth , was reviewed...
Textual Features Sarah Trimmer
In addition to Catharine Cappe 's work on Sunday schools and versions of fairy stories by Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy , the magazine reviewed work by a whole library of didactic, pedagogical, or improving writers, reprinted as...

Timeline

1756: Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le...

Writing climate item

1756

Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont published Le Magasin des enfants, a collection containing the first influential and literary formulation of the popular fairy story Beauty and the Beast.
Zipes, Jack. “The Origins of the Fairy Tale for Children or, How Script was Used To Tame the Beast in Us”. Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, edited by Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs, Clarendon Press, 1989, pp. 119-34.
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Texts

Le Prince de Beaumont, Jeanne. The Triumph of Truth; or, Memoirs of Mr. De La Villette. Translator Roberts, Radagunda, T. Cadell, 1775, 2 vols.