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Snow-White And Rose-Red
"Snow-White and Rose-Red" (german: Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot) is a German fairy tale. The best-known version is the one collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 161). An older, somewhat shorter version, "The Ungrateful Dwarf", was written by Caroline Stahl (1776–1837). Indeed, that appears to be the oldest variant; no previous oral version is known, although several have been collected since its publication in 1818. Oral versions are very limited regionally. The tale is of Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, Aarne-Thompson type 426 ("The Two Girls, the Bear, and the Dwarf"). This story is not related to the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Snow White" that provided the basis for the 1937 Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney animated film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. The modern German name of that heroine is ''Schneewittchen'' rather than ''Schneeweißchen''. This story has little in common but the similar name of its fair-skinned girl. "Snow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators". A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as '' Century'', '' Collier's'', ''Leslie's Weekly'', '' Harper's'', ''McClure's'', ''Scribners'', and the '' Ladies' Home Journal''. She had an ongoing relationship with ''Good Housekeeping'', which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the ''Good Housekeeping'' covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's '' Little Women'' and ''An Old-Fashioned Girl'', Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ''Evangeline'', and Robert Louis Stevenson's ''A Child's Garden of Verses''. Early life Jessie Willcox Smith was born on September 6, 1863, in the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
