The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers -- The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Emergence: Straparola: Sixteenth-Century Italy, Basile: Seventeenth-Century Italy -- Europe's First Fairy Tales -- Giovan Francesco Straparola: 1485?-1556? -- Giambattista Basile: 1575?-1632 -- Part II: Elaboration: Perrault and the Conteuses Précieuses Seventeenth-Century France -- Sophistication and Modernization of the Fairy Tale: 1690-1709 -- Charles Perrault: 1628-1703 -- Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy: 1650/51?-1705 -- Catherine Bernard: 1663?-1712 -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon :1664-1734 -- Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat: 1668?-1716 -- Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force: 1650?-1724 -- Part III: Exoticism Galland Eighteenth-Century France -- Antoine Galland: 1646-1715 -- Part IV: Didacticism Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Eighteenth-Century France -- Jeanne-Marie Leprince (or Le Prince) de Beaumont: 1711-1780? -- Part V: Traditionalization: Naubert: Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, The Grimms: Nineteenth-Century Germany, Bechstein: Nineteenth-Century Germany -- The Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century German Female Storytellers -- Benedikte Naubert -- Jacob Grimm 1785-1863 Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859 -- Ludwig Bechstein -- Part VI: Sentimentalization: Andersen Nineteenth-Century Denmark -- Hans Christian Andersen -- List of Contributors -- Index.