Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance is the story of seven free-thinking salon writers of 17th-century France who wielded their pens as an act of protest and launched a sensation that swept across Europe long before the Brothers Grimm were even born. It was these women—conteuses, they called themselves—who coined the term “fairy tale.” The stories they wrote starred strong females on quests that mirrored the challenges the writers themselves faced under the patriarchy, specifically the mis