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Collected Item: “Chisholm, Louey. “Bluebeard.” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 6-12.”

Full bibliographic citation (MLA)

Chisholm, Louey. “Bluebeard,” In Fairyland: Tales Told Again, illustrated by Katharine Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904, pp. 6-12.

Title of the complete book/anthology (not a single chapter/fairy tale)

In Fairyland: Tales Told Again

The name of the author or editor of the complete book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)

Chisholm, Louey

Illustrator(s) of the book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)

Cameron, Katharine

City where the book/anthology was published

London

The country where the book/anthology was published (use United States for US publications)

England

The publisher of the book/anthology (as written on the title page)

T.C. & E.C. Jack

Date of publication (or date range from the library catalog, if no dates are listed in the book)

1904

The decade the book was published (use the drop down menu)

1900-1909

The fairy tale type (use the drop down menu)

Persecuted Maidens

The author of the fairy tale/chapter (leave blank if none is listed). If there is only an author for the whole book/anthology listed, use that author again for this entry

Cameron, Katharine

What is special about this version of the tale?

The maiden in this tale succeeds over her oppressor and lives a long happy life.

A brief summary of the plot that highlights any unique variations

There once was a man who was incredibly rich, far richer than any other. He had a downfall in his appearance, however. A blue beard that no women liked to look at. He had a goal to marry one of two daughters, and since they both did not want to marry him, he devised a plan. He then marries the daughter Fatima. Bluebeard leaves and warns Fatima not to enter a room, for a punishment awaits her if she does. She enters the door and finds the dead bodies of all of Bluebeard’s past wives. Bluebeard finds out that she had entered this room and states that he will kill her, and she will join his past wives. Before he has a chance to kill her, Fatima’s two brothers enter and kill Bluebeard. Fatima remarries and gives Bluebeards riches to others and she lives happily ever after.

The original source of the fairy tale, if easily identifiable (Straparola, Basile, de Beaumont, Perrault, Grimm, etc.)

Charles Perrault

A link to a digital copy of the book

https://cudl.colorado.edu/luna/servlet/detail/UCBOULDERCB1~53~53~1098910~232302:In-fairyland--tales-told-again?sort=title%2Cpage_order&qvq=sort:title%2Cpage_order;lc:UCBOULDERCB1~53~53&mi=20&trs=50

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