The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) based on the Brothers Grimm's version of Perrault's work entitled 'Dornröschen'. In that version, the Princess's parents (the King and the Queen) survived the 100-year sleep to celebrate the Princess's wedding to the Prince. However, Vsevolozhsky incorporated Perrault's other characters from his stories into the ballet, such as Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Bluebird, Bluebeard, Ricky of the Tuft and Tom Thumb. Other French fairy tale characters to be featured are Beauty and the Beast, Pretty Goldilocks and The White Cat. Regardless, Tchaikovsky was happy to inform the Director of the Imperial Theatre that he had great
Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie children, Hester and Billy. She was a step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, who penned an obituary of her in the Times Literary Supplement. She is believed to have inspired the character of Mrs Hilbery in Woolf's "Night and Day". In 1863, Anne Isabella published "The story of Elizabeth" with immediate success. Several works followed: In other writings, she made unusual use of old folk stories to depict modern situations and occurrences, such as "Sleeping Beauty", "Cinderella" and "Little Red Riding Hood". She also published the following novels: Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (9 June 1837 –