Fairy tales for adult readers remained popular throughout Europe well into the 19th century — particularly in Germany, where the Brothers Grimm published their massive collection of German fairy tales (revised and edited to reflect the Brothers’ patriotic and patriarchal ideals), providing inspiration for novelists, poets, and playwrights among the German Romantics. Recently, fairy tale scholars have re–discovered the enormous body of work produced by women writers associated with the German Romantics: Gisela von Arnie, Sophie Tick Bernhard, Caroline von Undergone, Julie Berger, and Sophie Albrecht, to name just a few.

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