Beauty and the Beast: the original story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve: edited and translated by Aurora Wolfgang, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 74, Toronto, Ontario, Iter Press, 2020, 191 pages, $41.95, ISBN: 9780866986274

9780866986274 Villeneuve's story, like many female-authored fairy tales of the early modern period, is embedded in a frame narrative titled I The Young American Girl and Tales at Sea i (1740-41). Wolfgang's edition can change the way the twenty-first century public views the fairy tale genre as well as women's position in literary history. [Extracted from the article]