In 2021, I embarked upon a project with the Australian Fairy Tale Society. We were to embody and research three extraordinary women who were instrumental in creating literary fairy tales in the late 17th century: Henriette-Julie de Murat, Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy, and Charlotte-Rose de La Force. I played the latter and have never been so inspired by a woman and her works. We created a web series, which you can see here. We also published an eBook, which you can find here. To me, these women (and the others who joined them, are fairy tale royalty - after all, it was Marie-Catherine D’Aulnoy who first coined the term ‘fairy’ story.
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