Walter Crane

Brothers Grimm. "The Six Swans." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

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Brothers Grimm. "The Six Swans." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896. Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:40

Tale Summary

There was once a King who met an old woman while lost in the woods. She was a witch and promised to show him the way out as long as he took her daughter for his bride. He had seven children from a previous marriage, six boys and one girl whom he adored more than anything. They were sent to a castle in the woods for he feared their new stepmother would treat them poorly, and the queen soon began to wonder where her husband so frequently went. She bribed some servants and set out for the castle, and brought with her some silk shirts with enchanted charms. The boys thought it was their father returning and ran out to meet him, and the witch threw the shirts on each of them, turning them into swans. The next day, the king went to visit his children but found only his daughter. The king wished to take her with him to protect her, but because she was scared of his wife, she was allowed to spend one more night in the castle. That night, she resolved to find her brothers and went far into the woods until she was too weary to go on, and entered a hut she found. At sunset, six swans flew to the window and took off their swan-skins to reveal her brothers, who warned her she was staying in a robber’s hut, and that they could only be boys for fifteen minutes every day. They told her that in order to set them free, she would not be allowed to speak or laugh for six years, and in that time make six shirts out of aster flowers. She worked on this for a while, until some huntsmen of that country came by her tree and she was called to. She did not speak, and instead offered pieces of what she was wearing in the hopes of contenting them, but she was instead taken in front of the king. She did not answer him either, but she was so beautiful that he began to fall in love with her and they were soon married. However, he had a wicked mother who thought ill of the maiden, and when she bore her first child to the queen, the woman stole the baby away and smeared blood on the maiden’s mouth. The king did not believe his mother’s entreaty that his wife ate the child, and after their next child was born, the same trick was played. He still did not believe this was possible, but after the third baby disappeared, he condemned his wife to death by fire. On the day she was sentenced, it was the very last day of the six years, and she had finished all but one shirt, which needed its left sleeve. She cried out when the kindling started, for she saw six swans flying. She threw the shirts over them and they turned back into boys (although the one who wore the shirt with the sleeve missing had a wing instead of one of his arms). She told the king all that had happened, and the wicked woman was burned in her stead. The maiden and the king lived happily together with the six brothers for many years.

Fairy Tale Title

The Six Swans

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Common Tale Type

The Maiden who Seeks Her Brothers

Tale Classification

ATU 451

Page Range of Tale

pp. 31-34 (on document)

Full Citation of Tale

Brothers Grimm. "The Six Swans." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

When her brothers tell the maiden what she can do to save them, they tell her they think it will be too difficult for her.

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Book Title

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Publisher

Donohue, Henneberry & Co.

Date Published

1896

Decade Published

1890-1899

Publisher City

Chicago

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Link to Digital Copy

Available at the University of Florida Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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Crane, Walter. Beauty and the Beast. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875.

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:42:36 +0000

Crane, Walter. Beauty and the Beast. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/18/2022 - 12:42

Walter Crane

Tale Summary

This tale is a simplified retelling of the Beauty and the Beast narrative arc. Beauty, despite her jealous sisters, finds happiness with a prince doomed to live as a beast. When her troubled merchant father goes on a journey, Beauty requests a rose. Unknowingly on the way back, he regrettably picks the prettiest rose in the Beast’s garden where the Beast threatens his life if the merchant doesn’t bring back one of his daughters. Beauty willingly goes to live in the Beast’s palace and gets treated like a queen (waited on by monkeys) and is asked every night if she will marry the Beast. After begging the Beast, Beauty is granted a ring that she can use to travel home carrying gifts and stay for 2 months. After a while, and despite her brothers’ and father’s begging, she returns to the Beast who she finds dying on the ground in the garden. She confesses her love, breaking the magician’s spell, and Beauty and the Beast marry.

Fairy Tale Title

Beauty and the Beast

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Common Tale Type

Beauty and the Beast

Tale Classification

ATU 425C

Page Range of Tale

pp. 1-24

Full Citation of Tale

Crane, Walter. Beauty and the Beast. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875.

Original Source of the Tale

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Tale Notes

Part of the Walter Crane’s Toy Books Shilling Series, this edition of Beauty and the Beast is a simplified tale with light colorful images that caters toward young readers. It is a very light and simple read with many magical and delightful elements. In this version, the prince is put under a spell by a magician and doomed to live as a beast, until a beautiful girl loves him despite his ugliness.

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Book Title

Beauty and the Beast

Book Author/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Publisher

George Routledge and Sons

Date Published

1875

Decade Published

1870-1879

Publisher City

London and New York

Publisher Country

England and US

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available on the Internet Archive

Book Notes

None

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Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 16:53:14 +0000

Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896. Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/23/2021 - 09:53

Walter Crane

Tale Summary

The story begins with a frog announcing that the king and queen will have a child in a year’s time. After the birth, the king holds a great feast, inviting twelve of the thirteen wise women in his kingdom to gain favor for the child. After eleven of the twelve wise women have bestowed great gifts on the child, the uninvited thirteenth declares that the princess will be cursed to die by pricking herself with a spindle during her fifteenth year. Since the twelfth wise woman had not yet given her gift, she says that instead of death, the princess will fall into a deep slumber for a hundred years. The princess, Rosamond, pricks her finger in her fifteenth year and fulfills the prophecy, where she falls into a deep sleep along with the entire castle. On the day when Rosamond should awaken, a prince passes through the hedge witnessing the magical slumber the court is under and eventually finds himself next to the princess. He cannot contain himself and kisses her, whereupon Rosamond awakes along with the entire court. The prince and Rosamond get married and live happily together until the end.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

pp. 9-12

Full Citation of Tale

Brothers Grimm. "The Sleeping Beauty." Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by Walter Crane and E. H. Wehnert, Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1896.

Original Source of the Tale

Brothers Grimm

Tale Notes

There is one full-page black and white illustration of the prince about to wake the sleeping princess, as well as smaller illustrations including a historiated initial at the beginning of the tale. Unlike in many fairy tales, in this translation of the Grimms’ story, there is no justice carried out on the woman whom cursed the princess; she is never mentioned again.

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Book Title

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Book Author/Editor(s)

Brothers Grimm

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane
Edward Henry Wehnert

Publisher

Donohue, Henneberry & Co.

Date Published

1896

Decade Published

1890-1899

Publisher City

Chicago

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Link to Digital Copy

Available at the University of Florida Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:38:31 +0000

Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898. Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 11/22/2021 - 10:38

Walter Crane

Tale Summary

This tale is a retelling, though the story clearly follows the usual Little Red Riding Hood narrative arc found in both the Perrault and Grimm versions of the tale. Little Red Riding Hood leaves her mother's house to visit her grandmother, meeting the wolf along the way. The wolf reaches the grandmother's house first and eats the grandmother. The ending is a strange mix between the Perrault version and the Grimm version. In this tale, Little Red Riding Hood arrives at the grandmother's house but just before she is eaten, a hunter kills the wolf (note that not getting eaten is unlike both the Perrault and the Grimm versions). The grandmother, however, does not ever emerge from the wolf's stomach (she is presumably dead, like the Perrault version). The common motif found in the Grimm version where they are both eaten but eventually emerge unharmed from the wolf's stomach is completely absent.

Fairy Tale Title

Little Red Riding Hood

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Common Tale Type

Little Red Riding Hood

Tale Classification

ATU 333

Page Range of Tale

Full Citation of Tale

Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood, London: John Lane, 1898.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

In this version, the wolf eats the grandmother and nearly eats Little Red Riding Hood, but a hunter kills the wolf at that exact moment. There is no mention of the grandmother again, so the wolf must have killed her when he ate her.

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Book Title

Little Red Riding Hood

Book Author/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Publisher

John Lane

Date Published

c. 1898

Decade Published

1890-1899

Publisher City

London

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

A heavily-illustrated edition of Little Red Riding Hood with a shortened and rhyming version of the tale that has clearly been adapted to appeal to children.

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Crane, Walter. The Sleeping Beauty, London: John Lane, 1900.

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:07:58 +0000

Crane, Walter. The Sleeping Beauty, London: John Lane, 1900. Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/24/2021 - 16:07

Walter Crane

Tale Summary

In this tale, a prince comes upon a kingdom asleep. Exploring the grounds, he finds a sleeping princess that enchants him with her beauty. Upon waking her from her slumber with a kiss, the whole kingdom celebrates and throws a great feast.

Fairy Tale Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Fairy Tale Author(s)/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Fairy Tale Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Common Tale Type

Sleeping Beauty

Tale Classification

ATU 410

Page Range of Tale

Full Citation of Tale

Crane, Walter. The Sleeping Beauty, London: John Lane, 1900.

Original Source of the Tale

Charles Perrault

Tale Notes

This tale is interesting because it is in the form of poetry. It is quite short, and is heavily illustrated. This story is very sweet and starts with the prince's kiss, and ends with a celebration. No mention is made of how the princess came to be in this condition, and no harm is threatened to the princess.

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Book Title

The Sleeping Beauty

Book Author/Editor(s)

Walter Crane

Illustrator(s)

Walter Crane

Publisher

John Lane

Date Published

1900

Decade Published

1900-1909

Publisher City

London

Publisher Country

United Kingdom

Language

English

Rights

Public Domain

Digital Copy

Available at the CU Digital Library

Book Notes

None

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