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While the Grimm brothers are well-known for “their” fairy tale collections, well over 100 of them came from women including sisters Jeanette, Marie and Amalie Hassenpflug, who collectively contributed around 40 stories

Jenny von Droste zu Hülshoff

While the Grimm brothers are well-known for “their” fairy tale collections, well over 100 of them came from women

Jeanette Hassenpflug

While the Grimm brothers are well-known for “their” fairy tale collections, well over 100 of them came from women including sisters Jeanette, Marie and Amalie Hassenpflug, who collectively contributed around 40 stories

Marie Hassenpflug

While the Grimm brothers are well-known for “their” fairy tale collections, well over 100 of them came from women including sisters Jeanette, Marie and Amalie Hassenpflug, who collectively contributed around 40 stories

Dortchen Wild

While the Grimm brothers are well-known for “their” fairy tale collections, Wilhelm’s wife Dortchen Wild went uncredited for contributing a quarter of the stories in the first volume of 86 stories.

Bianca Pucciarelli Menna

Italian poet and performance artist

Anne Vavasour

Courtier Anne Vavasour is recognised as the inspiration for and protagonist of the poem, Anne Vavasour’s Echo, written circa 1581. It has also been suggested that she is the poem’s true author, as well as the poet behind Though I seem strange sweet friend, but both are more commonly attributed to her lover, Edward de Vere.