![]() ![]() Upper-class French women in the early 1600s generally received a basic education. Events in History at the Time the Novel Takes Place Women, education, and salons McKinley’s story takes place in an era that resembles the one evoked by the familiar French version and so bears a relation to some events of that period. The familiar version of “Beauty and the Beast,” the tale on which the novel is based, appeared in 1757 in France, where it was affected by developments in art and society that spanned more than a century. ![]() Set in the mythical past, the story itself is not closely linked to any specific time period. Her novel Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast reflects changing perceptions about fairy-tale heroines during this period, as well as her own personal interests. She attended college in Maine in the early and middle 1970s, during the rise of the women’s rights movement in America. The daughter of a naval officer, Robin McKinley spent much of her early childhood abroad. ![]() The daughter, Beauty, returns and begins a new life with the Beast.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Novel Was Written ![]() Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the BeastĪ novel based on a well-known French fairy tale and set in the mythical past published in 1978.īeauty’s father picks a rose from the garden of an enchanted castle whose ruler, the Beast, angrily demands that either he or his daughter return to the castle in one month as payment. ![]()
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