Editor's Note 2/21/2006: Marian Roalfe Cox's Cinderella is now available exclusively on SurLaLune for reading. I'm putting this here since this page is currently a top result for a Google search of "Marian Roalfe Cox."

Hi Everyone,

Delurking to seek help on my recurring fascination with Victorian female folklorists.

In particular right now I'm trying to find information on Marian Roalfe Cox, who was a member of the Folk-Lore Society and authored the first comparative work on a specific tale by gathering together 345 variants of the Cinderella tale.

Interestingly, a Google search turned up a couple of oil paintings by Cox, held by the British Government Art Collection. I also found some brief references in BRITISH FOLKLORISTS by Richard Dorson, and in WOMEN AND TRADITION edited by Hilda Ellis Davidson and Carmen Blacker.

I saw an old post from Helen saying that she too was interested in Marian Roalfe Cox, and wondered if she or anyone else turned up more information. There's hardly anything online, so it's time for an old fashioned print search! An earlier poster suggested the ENZYKLOPAEDIE DES MAERCHENS, but I cannot read German.

I'm an amateur scholar, so if I'm being dense in my research methods, please forgive me!

Thanks all,

Bee