"A collection of fairy tales published by women in seventeenth-century France [exploring] themes of love, marriage, sexuality, gender relations, and female education, and literacy. Includes works by Catherine Bernard, Catherine Durand, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont, Marie-Jeanne L'hâeritier, and Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess of Murat, with brief biographies of the authors"--