FAIRY WEB

This timeline includes publication dates for fairy tale texts within both the Fairy Web Literary Fairy Tale Dataset and the Fairy Web Anthology and Popular Fairy Tale Dataset, as well as dates for fairy tale texts that are historically or contextually relevant to the texts and/or authors included in both datasets.

Fairy tale texts that appear in blue are from the Fairy Web Literary Fairy Tale Dataset, while texts in green are from the Fairy Web Anthology and Popular Fairy Tale Dataset. Texts that appear in white are provided for historical context.

N.B.: this timeline is in no way comprehensive or exhaustive, but rather contains relevant information that was utilized for this digital humanities project.

1550-1553

Giovanni Francesco Straparola published

1634-1636

Giambattista Basile published

1697

Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy published

1697

Charles Perrault published

1699

D'Aulnoy's text first translated into English

1704-1705

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve published in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales)

1704-1717

Antoine Galland’s work begins to circulate in Europe

1729

Perrault's text first translated into English by Robert Samber

1802 - 1803

An essay by Sir Walter Scott is published in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

1805

Wieland's work is translated, which inspired other fairy plays, ballets, and Weber’s opera

1811

Baron de la Motte Fouqué published; translated into English soon after

1812

Brothers Grimm first published in Germany

1823

Selection of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales published for the first time in England, translated into English by Edgar Taylor and illustrated by George Cruikshank

1825

Thomas Crofton Croker, with the help of Thomas Keightley, published

1828

Thomas Keightley published first edition, illustrated by W. H. Brooke (later republished in the 1970s as The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves and Other Little People)

1831

Joseph Ritson published

1832

Ballet first performed in London (based on a story by Charles Nodier called Trilby); most popular when danced by Pauline DeVernay in 1836

1834

Thomas Keightley published

1836

Anna Eliza Bray, the first Victorian female folklorist published

1837

Sara Coleridge published

1838 - 1840

Edward Lane’s version published serially

1840

Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Aiken

1842

Robert Browning published

1846

Hans Christian Andersen’s tales translated into English in 5 volumes

1846

Edward Lear published

1848

Giambattista Basile’s work translated into English

1850

Thomas Keightely expanded edition published

1851

John Ruskin published (anonymously)

1854

William Makepeace Thackeray published

1854

Anna Eliza Bray published

1859

George Webbe Dasent translated Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's text into English

1862

Christina Rossetti published

1865

Thomas Hood, illustrated by Gustave Doré

1867

Charles Dickens published

1875

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik published

1877

Villamaria's Fairy Tale book translated into English

1879

Maive Stokes anthologized and published

1883

William Allingham published

1885

Thomas Frederick Crane published and anthologized

1886

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik anthologized and published

1886

Mary De Morgan published

1886

Hallam Tennyson Tennyson published

1888

W.B. Yeats published, introduced, and anthologized

1888

Oscar Wilde published

1888

George MacDonald published

1888

David Thompson published

1889

Andrew Lang published

1889 - 1910

Andrew Lang and Leonora "Blanche" Lang anthologized and published

1890

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published

1891

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published

1891

Oscar Wilde published

1891

Ford Maddox Ford published

1892

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published

1893

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published

1893

Andrew Lang published

1894

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published

1894

Straparola’s work translated into English

1897

Mrs. Angus W. Hall anthologized and published

1897

Isabel Bellerby et al. published

1898

Kenneth Grahame published

1899

Juliana Horatia Ewing published

1899

E. Nesbit published

1906

Rudyard Kipling published

1916

Joseph Jacobs anthologized and published