Introduction / Sophie Raynard
Europe's first fairy tales / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Giovan Francesco Straparola : 1485?-1556? / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Giambattista Basile : 1575?-1632 / Nancy Canepa
Sophistication and modernization of the fairy tale : 1690-1709 / Nadine Jasmin (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
Charles Perrault : 1628-1703 / Yvette Saupé and Jean-Pierre Collinet (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy : 1650/51?-1705 / Nadine Jasmin (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
Catherine Bernard : 1663?-1712 / Lewis C. Seifert
Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon : 1664-1734 / Lewis C. Seifert
Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat : 1668-1716 / Geneviève Patard (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force : 1650?-1724 / Lewis C. Seifert
Antoine Galland : 1646-1715 / Manuel Couvreur (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
Jeanne-Marie Leprince (or Le Prince) de Beaumont : 1711-1780? / Elisa Biancardi (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard)
The legacy of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century German female storytellers / Shawn C. Jarvis
Benedikte Naubert / Shawn C. Jarvis
Jacob Grimm : 1785-1863, Wilhelm Grimm : 1786-1859 / Donald R. Hettinga
Ludwig Bechstein / Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Hans Christian Andersen / Peer E. Soerensen.
