"Cendrillon" (1913)
("Cinderella")
The Christmas Edition of The Illustrated London News (1913)
Illustration by Kay Nielsen
When first published in the Christmas Edition of The Illustrated London News, this image was associated with the
following text:
A man once took as his second wife a proud woman, who had two daughters of a
like disposition. He himself had one young daughter, who was sweet and kind, as
her mother had been. The stepmother gave her all the vilest tasks of the house,
while her step-sisters lived in luxury, but the poor child endured it all patiently. When
her work was done she would sit among the cinders on the hearth: so she was called
Cendrillon. One day the King's son invited the two sisters to a ball. Cendrillon helped
them dress, and did their hair, but when they had gone she wept. Her godmother,
who was a Fairy, finding her in tears, bade her bring a pumpkin from the garden, six
lizards, and six mice and a rat from the traps. The pumpkin she changed into a gilded
coach, the rat into a coachman, the lizards into lacqueys, and the mice into six grey
horses. Cendrillon's ragged clothes became robes of silver and gold, flashing with
jewels, and her godmother also gave her two dear little glass slippers. She warned her
not to stay at the ball beyond midnight, else all would change back into their former
shapes. The King's son was charmed with Cendrillon, but before midnight she
disappeared, so the next evening he gave another ball. As the clock began striking
midnight she suddenly fled from the palace, losing one of her glass slippers as she ran.
The Prince proclaimed that he would marry the maiden on whose foot it fit perfectly.
When the heralds came to Cendrillon's home her sisters mocked when she asked to
put it on, but it fitted her foot exactly, and they she produced its fellow from her
pocket. Just then her godmother arrived, and changed her rags into a dress more
splendid than before. Her sisters recognised with amazement the lovely Princess who
was at the ball. Cendrillon forgave them, and when she married the Prince she
brought them to the palace and found them husbands in two noble couriers.
The illustration
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