{"id":351,"date":"2013-05-07T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-05-21T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T21:26:16","slug":"cinderella-in-the-1800s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinderella in the 1800&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming across, so far, three versions of the story of <strong>Cinderella<\/strong> during <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/\">McGill&#8217;s Chapbook\u00a0Digitization\u00a0Project<\/a>, I thought I would share a short comparison between the three, in no\u00a0particular\u00a0order:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Version 1:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nTitle: <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=003528828\"><strong>The History of Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPrinted: <strong>Otley, England by William Walker<\/strong><br \/>\nDate: <strong>1813<br \/>\n<\/strong>Excerpt:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;<strong> <\/strong><em>Her movements were so graceful, and her dancing performed with such nice, and, at the same time, easy exactness, that the admiration of the whole assembly was raised to the greatest height, and every part of the room resounded with loud bursts of applause.&#8221;\u00a0(p. 22)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><strong style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-351 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_w3_h4_1813_003528828-001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_W3_H4_1813_003528828-001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_w3_h4_1813_v1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_W3_H4_1813_V1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_w3_h4_1813_003528828-003\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_W3_H4_1813_003528828-003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_w3_h4_1813_003528828-012\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_W3_H4_1813_003528828-012-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_w3_h4_1813_003528828-013\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_W3_H4_1813_003528828-013-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unique to this version of the Cinderella story (from the other two) is its numerous wood-cut engraving in the shape of either a rectangle, and more commonly within the text, the shape of an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=360\">octagon<\/a>. Furthermore, this Chapbook includes a few <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=360\">stanzas<\/a> of verse\u00a0throughout the text alongside the main story line.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Version 2<\/span>:<\/em><br \/>\nTitle:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=003377328\"><strong>The Surprising Adventures of Cinderilla; or the History of A Glass Slipper to which is added An Historical Description of the Cat<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPrinted:\u00a0<strong>York, by J. Kendrew Colliergate<\/strong><br \/>\nDate:\u00a0<strong>1820<br \/>\n<\/strong>Excerpt: <em>&#8221; The King&#8217;s son conducted her to the most honourable seat and afterwards took her out to dance with him. She danced so very graceful, that they all more and more admired her.&#8221; (p.17)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-351 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_k4_a38_1820_003377328-001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_K4_A38_1820_003377328-001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_k4_a38_1820_003377328-002\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_K4_A38_1820_003377328-002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_k4_a38_1820_003377328-003\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_K4_A38_1820_003377328-003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_k4_a38_1820_003377328-005\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_K4_A38_1820_003377328-005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_k4_a38_1820_003377328-015\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_K4_A38_1820_003377328-015-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One of the key distinctive features of this version of the story is the spelling of the protagonist&#8217;s name. <em>Cinderella<\/em> is most commonly spelled with an &#8220;e&#8221;, however, this Chapbook has published the name with an &#8220;i&#8221;. Furthermore, unlike the other two versions, this Chapbook includes a section for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=368\">alphabet<\/a> before the main body of the text as well as adds a juvenile section towards the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=371\">a description of a cat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Version 3:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nTitle:<a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.mcgill.ca\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=catalogue&amp;request=003519778\">\u00a0<strong>Cinderella or, The History of the Little Glass Slipper<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPrinted:\u00a0<strong>Philadelphia,\u00a0Pennsylvania by Mathew Carey<\/strong><br \/>\nDate:\u00a0<strong>1800<br \/>\n<\/strong>Except:<em>\u00a0&#8220;The king&#8217;s \u017fon conducted her to the mo\u017ft honourable \u017feat, and afterwards took her out to dance with him. She danced so very gracefully, that they all more and more admired her.&#8221; (p.21)<\/em><strong><br \/>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 20%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-3 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-351 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_c27_p47_1800a_003519778-001\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_C27_P47_1800a_003519778-001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_c27_p47_1800a_003519778-002\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_C27_P47_1800a_003519778-002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_c27_p47_1800a_003519778-004\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_C27_P47_1800a_003519778-004-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_c27_p47_1800a_003519778-006\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_C27_P47_1800a_003519778-006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/pn970_c27_p47_1800a_003519778-019\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/files\/2013\/05\/PN970_C27_P47_1800a_003519778-019-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This particular version of the story of Cinderella is a facsimile (an exact reproduction of the original copy) that was acquired privately by the\u00a0Huntington\u00a0Library in 1951. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=374\">printed note<\/a> at the beginning of this copy, it is &#8220;the earliest known American edition of Cinderella&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathew_Carey\">Mathew Carey<\/a>, the publisher of this copy, was an Irish immigrant who came to\u00a0Philadelphia\u00a0in November 1784. The note further mentions that the text of this version may have been derived from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Perrault\">Charles Perrault<\/a>&#8216;s collection of stories, first published in the late 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>As displayed by the above excerpt, the text closely follows the standard version of the story (Version 2 above also demonstrates this). However, unlike the previous version, this publication includes numerous<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/2013\/04\/29\/the-latin-s-s\/\">Latin\u00a0S<\/a>&#8216;<\/em>s,<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typographic_ligature\"><em> ct-ligature<\/em><\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=378\"><em> signature<\/em> characters<\/a>, and wood cut <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/?attachment_id=375\">oval-shaped images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming across, so far, three versions of the story of Cinderella during McGill&#8217;s Chapbook\u00a0Digitization\u00a0Project, I thought I would share a short comparison between the three, in no\u00a0particular\u00a0order: Version 1: Title: The History of Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper Printed: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/cinderella-in-the-1800s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,17,6,7,24,12,20,21,15,16,10,11,19,18,22,13,23,14],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-collection","tag-8","tag-19th-century","tag-chapbook","tag-cinderella","tag-cinderilla","tag-collection","tag-ct","tag-digitization","tag-earliest-edition","tag-engravings","tag-facsimile","tag-latin-s","tag-ligature","tag-mathew-carey","tag-perrault","tag-rare","tag-signature","tag-special","tag-wood-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/chapbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}