Cinderella is a story that seems to be one of the most universal--told in cultures in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and may well have originated in Egypt. A short and digestible history of the story can be found in a commentary on a book by Marian Roalfe Cox, Cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes, written by and published by NPR (Mar. 13, 2015). A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella
