Report, if you have a problem with this page“ It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries through mothers, who told bedtime stories. ”
Jack D. Zipes
From : Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
