Editing Brothers Grimm (section)

=== Methodology ===
When Jacob returned to Marburg from Paris in 1806, their friend Brentano sought the brothers' help in adding to his collection of folk tales, at which time the brothers began to gather tales in an organized fashion.<ref name="Z(1988)2ff" /> By 1810 they had produced a manuscript collection of several dozen tales, written after inviting storytellers to their home and transcribing what they heard. These tales were heavily modified in transcription; many had roots in previously written sources.<ref name="H579">{{Harvnb|Haase|2008|p=579}}</ref> At Brentano's request, they printed and sent him copies of the 53 tales that they collected for inclusion in his third volume of {{lang|de|Des Knaben Wunderhorn}}.<ref name="Pitt" /> Brentano either ignored or forgot about the tales, leaving the copies in a church in [[Alsace]] where they were found in 1920 and became known as the Ölenberg manuscript. It is the earliest extant version of the Grimms' collection and has become a valuable source to scholars studying the development of the Grimms' collection from the time of its inception. The manuscript was published in 1927 and again in 1975.<ref>{{Harvnb|Zipes|2000|p=62}}</ref>

The brothers gained a reputation for collecting tales from peasants, although many tales came from middle-class or aristocratic acquaintances. Wilhelm's wife, Henriette Dorothea (Dortchen) Wild, and her family, with their nursery maid, told the brothers some of the more well-known tales, such as "Hansel and Gretel" and "[[Sleeping Beauty]]".<ref name="J177ff" /> Wilhelm collected some tales after befriending [[August von Haxthausen]], whom he visited in 1811 in [[Westphalia]] where he heard stories from von Haxthausen's circle of friends.<ref name="Z(1988)11ff">{{Harvnb|Zipes|1988|pp=11–14}}</ref> Several of the storytellers were of [[Huguenot]] ancestry, telling tales of French origin such as those told to the Grimms by [[Marie Hassenpflug]], an educated woman of French Huguenot ancestry,<ref name="H579" /> and it is probable that these informants were familiar with Perrault's {{lang|fr|[[Histoires ou contes du temps passé]]}} (''Stories from Past Times'').<ref name="Jean">{{Harvnb|Jean|2007|pp=280–282}}</ref> Other tales were collected from [[Dorothea Viehmann]], the wife of a middle-class tailor and also of French descent. Despite her middle-class background, in the first English translation she was characterized as a peasant and given the name {{lang|de|Gammer Gretel}}.<ref name="Txxxff" /> At least one tale, ''Gevatter Tod (Grim Reaper''), was provided by composer [[Wilhelmine Schwertzell]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schnack |first=Ingeborg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3QTAQAAMAAJ&q=wilhelmine+schwertzell |title=Lebensbilder aus Kurhessen und Waldeck 1830-1930 |date=1958 |publisher=N.G. Elwert |language=de}}</ref> with whom Wilhelm had a long correspondence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=29. Juli─01. September ¤ WTB: • Willingshäuser Malersymposium • - Künstlerkolonie Willingshausen |url=https://www.malerkolonie.de/index.php/id-29-juli01-september-wtb-willingshaeuser-malersymposium.html |access-date=2022-11-10 |website=www.malerkolonie.de}}</ref>

[[File:Walter Crane12.jpg|thumb|Stories such as "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", shown here in a [[Walter Crane]] illustration, had been previously published and were rewritten by the Brothers Grimm.<ref name="Jean" />]]

According to scholars such as Tatar and Ruth Bottigheimer, some of the tales probably originated in written form during the [[Middle Ages|medieval period]] with writers such as [[Giovanni Francesco Straparola|Straparola]] and [[Boccaccio]], but were modified in the 17th century and again rewritten by the Grimms. Moreover, Tatar writes that the brothers' goal of preserving and shaping the tales as something uniquely German at a time of [[Convention of Artlenburg|French occupation]] was a form of "intellectual resistance", and in so doing they established a methodology for collecting and preserving folklore that set the model followed later by writers throughout Europe during periods of occupation.<ref name="Txxxff">{{Harvnb|Tatar|2004|pp=xxxiv–xxxviii}}</ref><ref name="B175ff">{{Harvnb|Bottigheimer|1982|pp=175}}</ref>