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Marian Roalfe Cox

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Marian Roalfe Cox (1860–1916) was an English folklorist who pioneered studies in Morphology for the fairy tale Cinderella.

In 1893, after being commissioned by the Folklore Society of Britain, she produced Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin and, Cap O' Rushes, Abstracted and Tabulated with a Discussion of Medieval Analogues and Notes, a seminal work in the study of Cinderella, introduced by Andrew Lang.[1] Prior to anthologization and folklore indices, she identified five broad types:[1]

She also wrote An Introduction to Folk-Lore.

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Further reading

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  • Cox, Marian Roalfe (1907). "Cinderella". Folklore. 18 (2): 191–208. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1907.9719772.
  • Schaefer, Pat (2003). "Unknown Cinderella: The Contribution of Marian Roalfe Cox to the Study of Fairy Tale". In Davidson, Hilda Ellis; Chaudhri, Anna (eds.). A Companion to the Fairy Tale. Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer. pp. 137–148.
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