68-702: Kate Forsyth (born 3 June 1966) is an Australian author. She is best known for her historical novel Bitter Greens , which interweaves a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force . Forsyth is also the author of several children's books, including The Gypsy Crown , The Puzzle Ring , The Starthorn Tree , The Wildkin's Curse , The Starkin Crown and Dragon Gold . She has also published two heroic fantasy series, The Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon's Ride ,
136-448: A child, a couple is expecting a baby. The husband and wife live next to a large, extensive, high-walled flower and herb garden belonging to a sorceress . The wife craves for the rapunzel (which is either cornsalad or rampion ) that she sees growing in the garden. She refuses to eat anything else and begins to waste away. Her husband fears for her life and one night, he scales down the garden wall to steal some rapunzel for her. When
204-493: A compilation of essays and memoir pieces detailing the way reading has guided these writers. Forsyth is a generous mentor for, and collaborator with, other writers and creatives including co-author Kim Wilkins and illustrator Kathleen Jennings for The Silver Well , which won the 2017 Aurealis Award for Best Collection; Sarah Mills with whom she presented the combination cooking and book-review show Word of Mouth TV ; artist Lorena Carrington with whom she partnered on Vasilisa
272-484: A feminist perspective." Forsyth wrote "Full Fathom Five" as the thesis for her Master of Arts in Writing, and then, to relieve the tedium of studying theorists such as Lacan , Derrida and de Saussure for her exams, she started reading a multi-book fantasy series. The turning point was when her husband, Greg Forsyth, suggested that she write such a series herself. Forsyth undertook a doctorate in fairy-tale retelling at
340-570: A media of Rapunzel in an episode which aired on 27 October 1958. Carol Lynley played Rapunzel and Agnes Moorehead played the evil witch. The fictional TV show, "The Flora Follicle Show" on Slim Goodbody in Nutri-City had a direct reference to the Rapunzel story, as Flora Follicle played Rapunzel to Lustre Lanolin's Prince Charming. In the American fairy tale miniseries, The Tenth Kingdom (2000),
408-407: A mother can bestow. After winning legal custody of her children, Charlotte returned to Oldbury, where she died in 1867. A Mother's Offering , which predates subsequent Australian literature for the young by a decade, is written in the genre of children's conversation textbooks, a dialogue between mother and children, reflecting the importance of family conversation to education in the home in
476-456: A need for vitamins . The "Maiden in the Tower" archetype has drawn comparisons to a possible lost matriarchal myth connected to the sacred marriage between the prince and the maiden and the rivalry between the maiden, representing life and spring, and the crone , representing death and winter. Andrew Lang included the story in his 1890 publication The Red Fairy Book . Other versions of
544-560: A position as governess to the family of Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur . She became engaged during the voyage to James Atkinson, a highly respected agriculturalist and author of the first substantial book on Australian farming. They married in 1827. The couple settled at Atkinson's property Oldbury in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales . They had four children, including the author and naturalist Caroline Louisa Waring Calvert (née Atkinson) . The children appear, slightly disguised, as
612-501: A series of miracles delaying her execution. Her story was included in The Book of the City of Ladies , completed by 1405 by Christine de Pizan in vernacular French, which may have been highly influential on later writers, as it was popular throughout Europe. The earliest surviving reference to a female character with long hair that she offers to a male lover to climb like a ladder appears in
680-467: A son who would kill his grandfather. Inspiration may come from Ethniu , daughter of Balor , in Irish myth. Inspiration may come from the story of Saint Barbara of Nicomedia , who is said to have been a beautiful woman who was confined to a tower by her father to protect her from bad influences. While in the tower, she is said to have converted to Christianity and be ultimately martyred for her faith after
748-424: A standalone adult historical fantasy novel The Book of Gothel, which speculates that the witch's character was inspired by the life of a medieval midwife named Haelewise, daughter-of-Hedda, who lived in 12th century Germania. The novel is a revisionist backstory for Rapunzel that also connects to elements of Snow White , Little Red Riding Hood , and other tales. Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958–1961) featured
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#1732875979630816-454: A variation of the story, Persinette , while confined to an abbey due to perceived misconduct during service in the court of Louis XIV . Before her imprisonment, de la Force was a prominent figure in the Parisian salons and considered one of the early conteuses as a contemporary to Charles Perrault . This version of the story includes almost all elements that were found in later versions by
884-590: A violent drunkard, and she fled with her four children in 1839, settling in Sydney in 1840 and continued to fight for the rights of her children to benefit from Atkinson's will, and to keep custody of her children. Her legal battles are chronicled by historian Patricia Clarke in her book "Pioneer Writer" (1990). This is background to this precious bound work of 30 illustrated pages, each 18.5 x 20 cm, that certainly show evidence of her study in London with artist John Glover. It
952-496: Is Lady Tremaine, the wicked stepmother to Cinderella . The video of the song " Circles " by Post Malone is inspired by the story of Rapunzel. The American television animated anthology series, Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995-2000), the classic story is retold with a full African-American cast and set in New Orleans . The episode starred Tisha Campbell-Martin as Rapunzel, Whoopi Goldberg as Zenobia
1020-520: Is Rapunzel's feisty lady-in-waiting, and later revealed to be Mother Gothel's biological daughter. The Japanese anime series Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics (1987–1989) features the tale in its second season. Charlotte Barton Charlotte Atkinson (1796–1867) was the author of Australia's earliest known children's book. The book titled A Mother's Offering to her Children: By a Lady, Long Resident in New South Wales. Sydney: Gazette Office
1088-539: Is a nonfiction author. After graduating in a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Macquarie University , Forsyth worked as a full-time journalist , including Editor of Hair and deputy editor of Money Watch before quitting to work freelance , writing articles for Vogue Australia , Black+White , Studio Bambini , Mode Brides , Interiors and Australian Collections amongst others. Freelancing allowed her to concentrate more on her poetry and to be President of
1156-401: Is a book that carries on from her public work, offering a naturalist's view of their earlier life at Oldbury, with exacting studies of insects, moths, butterflies and birds- all peculiarly Austral- things so small that only a child might quietly view. The spectacular possum, and the ineffable owl would all proffer memories and tales of a more peaceful time, yet the burden shown by her rendering of
1224-602: Is a fictional retelling of the tale and of the life of Mademoiselle de la Force entitled, Bitter Greens , and her second book was non-fiction describing the development of the tale entitled, The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower. In Nikita Gill 's 2018 poetry collection Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul she has several poems that reference Rapunzel or Rapunzel's story including Rapunzel's Note Left for Mother Gothel and Rapunzel, Rapunzel . In 2022, Mary McMyne published
1292-455: Is dealing with such a wide-ranging time period, and simultaneously presenting three kinds of writing. Forsyth is active in presenting workshops for writers, and is a frequently a public speaker, often in schools, and also in literary festivals and conferences, bookshops, libraries and museums, on fantasy, folk tales and the role of women in them. With Joan London , Andy Griffiths and David Malouf she contributed to The Simple Act of Reading ,
1360-566: Is loyal to is characters and communicates the concerns, the hopes, and fears of Germans during and after the Napoleon's wars in modern terms." Forsyth's work has won numerous Aurealis Awards: she won both the Aurealis and the William Atheling Jr. Award for The Rebirth of Rapunzel , and was given an honourable mention at the 2013 Norma K. Hemming Awards for Bitter Greens, for which she also won
1428-450: Is the sorceress calling her again, Rapunzel lets down her hair and the prince climbs up. The two then fall in love and secretly marry . As the sorceress visits Rapunzel by day, the couple plans a means of escape: the prince will bring his wife a strand of silk every night until she has enough to make a ladder for her to climb down the tower and ride away with him on horseback. Before the couple's escape plan can come to fruition, however,
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#17328759796301496-643: Is writing for a global readership, and only one of her 40 books is set in Australia. Edward James in the Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature remarks on the domination in the first decade of the 21st century of the popular fantasy genre by Australian women, and Tierney includes Kate Forsyth amongst them, with Emily Rodda , Isobelle Carmody , Jessica Townsend , in "finding success in Australia and internationally," despite there being little distinctively 'Australian' about their works. She goes on to distinguish
1564-603: The Baltic solar goddess , Saulė , who is held captive in a tower by a king. Inspiration may also be taken from the classical myth of the hero, Perseus ; Perseus' mother, the Princess Danaë , was confined to a bronze tower by her own father, Acrisius , the King of Argos , in an attempt to prevent her from becoming pregnant, as it was foretold by the Oracle of Delphi that she would bear
1632-805: The Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales (KHM 12). The Brothers Grimm's story was developed from the French literary fairy tale of Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force (1698), which itself is an alternative version of the Italian fairy tale Petrosinella by Giambattista Basile (1634). The tale is classified as Aarne–Thompson type 310 ("The Maiden in The Tower"). Its plot has been used and parodied in various media . Its best known line is, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair". After years of wishing for
1700-521: The Great Dividing Range in 1813. He returned to England in 1826 but came back to Australia in 1832 and set up as a bookseller and stationer. The book is very rare and it commands high prices; in April 2005 a copy fetched $ 48,000. In July 2011 another auctioned by Treloars sold for $ 25,000 and on 12 June 2011 her "workbook", a 30-page book of illustrations with pen, ink & watercolour drawings that
1768-502: The 1857 version of the story was the first written for a primarily child-aged audience. According to Greek folklorist Georgios A. Megas, fellow folklorist Michael Meracles concluded that the tale type originated in Southeastern Europe, by analysing 22 Greek variants, 2 Serbo-Croatian and 1 from Corsica. Scholar Jack Zipes stated that the tale type is "extremely popular throughout Europe". However, scholar Ton Deker remarked that
1836-577: The American Library Association Award for Best Historical Novel In 2018 she won the Australian Fairy Tale Society Award for her inspiration and contribution to Australian fairy tale culture. Rapunzel " Rapunzel " ( / r ə ˈ p ʌ n z əl / rə- PUN -zəl , German: [ʁaˈpʊnt͡sl̩] ; French : Raiponce or Persinette ) is a German fairy tale most notably recorded by
1904-479: The Beast in return for a rose. Furthermore, folkloric beliefs often regarded it as dangerous to deny a pregnant woman any food she craved, making the bargain with the sorceress more understandable, since the husband would have perceived his actions as saving his wife at the cost of his child. Family members would often go to great lengths to secure such cravings, and such desires for lettuce and other vegetables may indicate
1972-527: The British. Life's dangers were a frequent theme of 19th-century Australian children's fiction. And yet there is scientific understanding evident in her accounting for explosions heard in the bush 'as loud as cannon' with reference to theories of Sir John Herschel . The book was published by George William Evans (1780–1852), a surveyor who had arrived in Port Jackson in 1802. He led the expedition which crossed
2040-497: The Grimm Brothers. It is the first version to include the maiden's out of wedlock pregnancy, the villain's trickery leading to the prince's blinding, the birth of twins, and the tears of the maiden restoring the prince's sight. The tale ends with the antagonist taking pity on the couple and transporting them to the prince's kingdom. While de la Force's claim that Persinette was an original story cannot be substantiated, her version
2108-682: The Hoodoo Diva, Meshach Taylor as the Woodcutter, Hazelle Goodman as the Woodcutter's Wife, Donald Fullilove as Friend #1, and Tico Wells as Friend #2. The Mattel cartoon Ever After High (2013–2017), features Rapunzel's identical twin daughters: Holly and Poppy O'Hair. Tangled: The Series (2017–2020) is a 2D animated TV show based on Disney Animation's computer animated musical feature film Tangled . Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi reprise their roles of Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert . A new main character named Cassandra appears, who
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2176-508: The Persian epic poem Shahnameh , written by Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE. The heroine of the story, Rudāba , offers her hair so that her love interest Zāl may enter the harem where she lives. Zāl instead uses a rope he had his servant brought with him so that she will not hurt herself. The first written record of a story that may be recognized as Rapunzel is Giambattista Basile's Petrosinella , translating to parsley, which
2244-608: The Poets Union. She publishes her poetry under her maiden name, Kate Humphrey. This has appeared in Australian newspapers, such as The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , and The Bulletin , and domestic and international literary magazines. Writing in The Sydney Morning Herald Melanie Kembrey rates Forsyth as an "internationally acclaimed author...best known for her re-imaginings of fairy stories from
2312-424: The Tower" in the western literary canon, the story does not appear to have connections to a Germanic oral folktale tradition. Notably, the 1812 publication retains the out of wedlock pregnancy that reveals the prince's visits to the witch, whereas in the 1857 version edited by Wilhelm Grimm , it is Rapunzel's slip of the tongue to address criticism that the tale was not appropriate for children. It can be argued that
2380-410: The Tower" stories, which Rapunzel is a part of, as a metaphor for the protection of young women from pre-marital relationships by overzealous guardians. Scholars have drawn comparisons of the confinement of Rapunzel in her tower to that of a convent, where women's lives were highly controlled and they lived in exclusion from outsiders. Scholars have also noted the strong theme of love conquering all in
2448-522: The University of Technology, Sydney. Her novel Bitter Greens was written as the creative component of her doctorate, which one reviewer felt resulted in a story that was "two books', and subsequently Forsyth examined the many different retellings of Rapunzel in The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, which reviewer Belinda Calderone considers "remarkably clear" when "Forsyth
2516-572: The Wise and Other Tales of Brave Young Women in 2019 and others in their series of illustrated feminist fairy tales since; and with sister Belinda Murrell for joint research on their Searching for Charlotte. Of her The Rebirth of Rapunzel: A Mythic Biography of the Maiden in the Tower, Melissa Mullins writes that Forsyth "weaves together the strands of personal narrative, creative process, and historical and biographical detail, acknowledging that; "Forsyth has researched broadly and made connections relevant to
2584-474: The creative process. In addition, she collects a solid list of key critics in the field of fairy-tale and folklore studies; however, Forsyth’s treatment and interpretation of the ideas of these critics varies in its success." Academics Fletcher, Driscoll and Wilkins, in defining Australian popular fiction and fantasy note that while Forsyth identifies as an Australian author descended from Australia’s first published children’s writer Charlotte Waring Atkinson , she
2652-537: The first time. It is an excellent example of the influence women had on the community through the education of their children, though the children's questions and reactions are gendered; Clara being interested in botany and Julius in hunting. The book covers a variety of topics, from natural history, often as an example for human morality, to geology, shipwrecks and the customs of the Australian Aborigines . Some parts are quite lurid, such as her description of
2720-407: The forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is unable to enter it. The prince returns to the tower often, listening to Rapunzel's beautiful singing, and one day sees the sorceress visit her as usual and learns how to gain access. When the sorceress leaves, the prince bids Rapunzel to let her hair down. Thinking it
2788-710: The four children of the book. Charlotte's father, Thomas Albert Waring, died in 1829. She is mentioned in his will as the wife of James Atkinson in NSW. James Atkinson died in 1834, and Charlotte married Oldbury's overseer George Bruce Barton in March 1836. He became insane and Charlotte was forced to separate from him. Barton had a history of alcoholism and violence, and was eventually convicted of manslaughter in Bathurst in 1854. Charlotte left Oldbury with her children bound for Budgong and later moved to Sydney. Her guardianship of her children
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2856-557: The maiden, her mother, and the prince. Cress is the third book in the Lunar Chronicles , a young adult science fiction series written by Marissa Meyer that is an adaptation of Rapunzel . Crescent, nicknamed "Cress", is a prisoner on a satellite who is rescued and falls in love with her hero "Captain Thorne" amidst the story about "Cinder" a cyborg version of Cinderella. Kate Forsyth has written two books about Rapunzel, one
2924-596: The main character, Virginia Lewis is cursed by a Gypsy witch. As a result, she grows hair reminiscent of Rapunzel's and is locked away by the Huntsman in a tower. Rapunzel appears in the Once Upon a Time episode The Tower (2014), portrayed by Alexandra Metz. A second iteration of Rapunzel appears as one of the main antagonists in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time (Season 7, 2018), portrayed by Gabrielle Anwar and Meegan Warner in flashbacks. In this season, Rapunzel
2992-410: The man returns home, his wife makes a salad out of the rapunzel and eats it. But the next day, the wife craves for more rapunzel, so her husband returns to the garden that night to steal some more. As he scales down the garden wall, the sorceress catches him and accuses him of theft. The man begs for mercy and explains his wife's condition. The sorceress agrees to be lenient, allowing the man to take all
3060-466: The most prominent relative). While there are one or two English scenes directly bearing on her family background, the majority of images are of the minutae of a naturalist's life in colonial New South Wales. Indeed, she lived with her daughter Louisa at Kurrajong, and at Oldbury from 1860 until her death in 1867; enjoying the fruits of seeing Louisa's nature studies, journalism, and successful novels, and more than likely, participating in their production from
3128-426: The nineteenth century, and follows the pattern of literature by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in its expository question-and-answer format concluding in pious moralising. It is not a dull tract however; Charlotte drew on her own experiences in the colony, and probably on actual conversations with her children, in preparing a stimulating, often exciting text that presents children with local adventures and Australian heroes for
3196-507: The old Aboriginal chief is tempered by her vision of the Aboriginal mother and child, with the woman carrying the flame and keeping it lit during dark times. The apparent oddity of her signalling out very recent expeditions involving the Eskimos and Finland natives, follow from this experience of living in harmony with native inhabitants, and of her extended scientific family (Charles Darwin being
3264-420: The opportunity presented itself. When the wife gives birth to a baby girl, the sorceress takes her to raise as her own and names her "Rapunzel" after the plant her mother had craved for. Rapunzel grows up to be a beautiful child with long golden hair . When she turns twelve, the sorceress locks her up in a tower in the middle of the woods , with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window at
3332-523: The poetry collection Radiance , and the novel Full Fathom Five under her maiden name, Kate Humphrey . She is a five-time Aurealis Award winner. She is married with three children, and lives in Sydney , New South Wales . She is also a direct descendant of Charlotte Barton , the author of Australia's earliest known children's book. Forsyth's older sister, Belinda Murrell, is also an author for children and young adults and their younger brother, Nick Humphrey,
3400-399: The prince hears her voice again, and they are reunited. When they fall into each other's arms, Rapunzel sheds tears , two of which fall into the prince's eyes, immediately restoring his sight. The prince leads Rapunzel and their children to his kingdom where they live happily ever after. Another version of the story ends with the revelation that the sorceress had untied Rapunzel's hair after
3468-406: The prince leapt from the tower, and it slipped from her hands and landed far below, leaving her trapped in the tower. Some researchers have proposed that the earliest possible inspiration for the "Maiden in the Tower" archetype is to the pre-Christian European (or proto-Indo-European ) sun or dawn goddess myths, in which the light deity is trapped and is rescued. Similar myths include that of
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#17328759796303536-435: The prince than her ). In anger, the sorceress cuts off Rapunzel's hair and banishes her into the wilderness to fend for herself. When the prince calls that night, the sorceress hooks Rapunzel's severed hair and lets it down to haul him up. To the prince's horror, he finds himself meeting the sorceress instead of Rapunzel. After the sorceress tells the prince in a rage that he will never see Rapunzel again, he throws himself from
3604-423: The rapunzel he wants on the condition that the baby be given to her when it is born. Desperate, he agrees. Different versions disagree whether the sorceress had deliberately caused her pregnant neighbour to crave the rapunzel in the first place, by design to create the pretence of taking custody of the baby instead of persecuting the man and his wife, or if it was just a coincidence that the sorceress exploited when
3672-519: The recurrence of female characters in Forsyth's adult fiction "refusing to bow to societal norms" of patriarchy. Grimm authority Cay Dollerup reviewing her historical novel The Wild Girl comments that "it is a tribute to the fundamental and inherent truths of the Grimm Tales that Kate Forsyth can, over a span of nearly 200 years, write a fascinating, humorous and also shocking novel based on their lives. It
3740-457: The sorceress visits one day and Rapunzel innocently asks her why all her clothes are tight around the waist (this part comes from the 1812 original edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen or Children's and Household Tales , most commonly known in English as Grimms' Fairy Tales ; in later editions, Rapunzel instead asks "Dame Gothel", in a moment of forgetfulness, why it is easier for her to draw up
3808-589: The story contains a "flight" scene in which Petrosinella uses magic acorns that turn into animals to distract the ogress while she pursues the couple fleeing the tower. This "flight" scene, with three magic objects used as distraction, is found in oral variants in the Mediterranean region, notably Sicily ( Angiola ), Malta ( Little Parsley and Little Fennel ), and Greece ( Anthousa the Fair with Golden Hair ). In 1697, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force published
3876-572: The story, as the lovers are united after years of searching in all versions after Persinette and are ultimately happily reunited as a family. The seemingly unfair bargain that the husband makes with the sorceress in the opening of Rapunzel is a common convention in fairy tales, which is replicated in Jack and the Beanstalk , when Jack trades a cow for beans, and in Beauty and the Beast , when Beauty comes to
3944-516: The tale also appear in A Book of Witches (1965) by Ruth Manning-Sanders and in Paul O. Zelinsky 's Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, Rapunzel (1997). Anne Sexton wrote a poem called "Rapunzel" in her collection Transformations (1971), a book in which she re-envisions sixteen of the Grimm's Fairy tales . Donna Jo Napoli 's novel Zel (1996) retells the Rapunzel story from three perspectives:
4012-667: The tale type is "mainly known" in Central and South Europe, and in the Middle East. In the same vein, Stith Thompson argued for a Mediterranean origin for the story, due to "its great popularity" in Italy and nearby countries. Scholar Ulrich Marzolph remarked that the tale type AT 310 was one of "the most frequently encountered tales in Arab oral tradition", albeit missing from The Arabian Nights compilation. Many scholars have interpreted "Maiden in
4080-416: The top. In order to visit Rapunzel, the sorceress stands at the bottom of the tower and calls out: Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Let down your hair That I may climb thy golden stair! Whenever Rapunzel hears that rhyme, she fastens her long braided hair to a hook in the window before letting it fall twenty yards to the ground, and the sorceress climbs up it. A few years later, a prince rides through
4148-409: The tower, landing in a patch of thorns . Although the prince survives, the thorns blind him. A month later in the wilderness, Rapunzel gives birth to her twin children with the prince – a boy and a girl. For some years, the blind prince wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes to the wilderness where Rapunzel has been living with their children. One day, as Rapunzel sings,
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#17328759796304216-543: The wreck of the Charles Eaton , a ship that went down in the Torres Strait in 1834. It was claimed that many children survived the shipwreck only to be eaten by cannibals. She describes Aboriginal 'monsters' and their 'wanton barbarities' in her A Mother's Offering account of shipwrecked Eliza Fraser 's treatment, which she explains is a result of Islanders and aborigines being more prone to 'unrestrained passions' than
4284-451: Was Schulz who changed the plant and the maiden's name to Rapunzel. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm included the story in their first (1812) and seventh (1857) edition publications of Children's and Household Tales and removed elements that they believed were added to the "original" German fairy tale. Although the Grimms' recounting of the fairy tale is the most prevalent version of the "Maiden in
4352-654: Was created as a gift to her daughter Jane Emily on her thirteenth birthday in 1843, sold at auction for $ 70,000 to a private bidder. . Aalders auction catalogue included the following biography: Born in London in 1796 [sic], Atkinson was a remarkable figure, carrying her family's interest in art and science to act as governess for Hannibal Macarthur in 1826, meeting James Atkinson on ship (The Cumberland) to Sydney and marrying soon after, moving to his home at Oldbury, near Sutton Forest. Her husband died not long after giving birth of their fourth child, (Caroline)Louisa. She married their homestead's overseer, George Barton who proved to be
4420-468: Was published in Naples in the local dialect in 1634 in a collection entitled Lo cunto de li cunti (The Tale of Tales). This version of the story differs from later versions as it is the wife not the husband who steals the plant, the maiden is taken by the villain as a child rather than a baby, and the maiden and the prince are not separated for years to be reunited in the end. Most importantly, this version of
4488-481: Was published in 1841. Anonymously published, the book was originally attributed to Lady J.J. Gordon Bremer, the wife of Sir James John Gordon Bremer . However, extensive research by Marcie Muir supports its attribution to Charlotte Barton. Charlotte Waring was born in 1796 and christened on 13 March 1796 at St Mary's, Marylebone, London . Her parents were Albert Waring and his wife Elizabeth Turner. In 1826 Charlotte Waring came to New South Wales to take up
4556-574: Was resoundingly confirmed as of 6 July 1841 in a decision by C.J. Dowling of the Supreme Court of New South Wales . It being made manifest, therefore, that Mrs. Barton is herself competent to educate her children either by herself or by any competent assistance under her own eye, it would require a state of urgent circumstances to induce the Court to deprive them (all of whom are under thirteen years of age) of that maternal care and tenderness, which none but
4624-613: Was the most complex at the time and did introduce original elements. The first known German translation of Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force 's tale Persinette came about in 1766 by Friedrich Immanuel Bierling under the name " Das Cabinet der Feen. Oder gesammelte Feen-Märchen in neun Theilen, Aus dem Französischen übersetzt ", published in Nürenberg. More famously, Persinette was translated into German by Friedrich Schulz and appeared in 1790 in Kleine Romane ( Little Novels ), as it
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