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Enter a contemporary salon in the spirit of the seventeenth century—where research, literature, art, and design engage in refined conversation.Tucked within the Portfolio and the Journal are current projects shaped by early modern aesthetics, gender, and visual culture—each offering a distinctive approach to scholarly and creative work. Here, in Jennifer Taylor's ongoing practice, you are invited to discover fragments of a lost world of literary elegance, a world now remembered only through the fairy tales.
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Mar 8, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Designing Women: Why Perrault Trusted His Female Readers
Fairy tales are often imagined as tools of moral discipline—especially for women. But Perrault’s tales do something more surprising: they trust women to judge. This trust is easy to miss if we focus only on plot. It becomes clearer when we look at how Perrault frames his work. When he presented his fairy tales to Élisabeth-Charlotte d’Orléans, the niece of Louis XIV, he placed a symbolic device at the head of the dedicatory letter: a rose with thorns, accompanied by inscriptions in both Latin...
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Feb 18, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Two Sides of a Coin: Why Perrault Keeps Giving Us Paired Morals
Readers often find it puzzling—if not irritating—that Charles Perrault sometimes ends his fairy tales with two morals instead of one, and morals that seem ill matched to the story in some cases. Sometimes they even contradict each other. But from a seventeenth-century perspective, they may be doing something deliberate. Perrault spent much of his career designing medals and coins—objects that had two sides: on one side, a profile or public face, on the other, a symbolic image accompanied by...
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Jan 27, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Behind the Scenes of Chapter 4: Constructing Eve Through Embodied Research
Chapter 4 of my current project, Designing Women: The Iconography of Charles Perrault , centers on an overlooked gem in Perrault’s oeuvre: his poetic retelling of Genesis, titled Adam ou la création de l'homme (1697). Though best known for his fairy tales, Perrault was a consummate designer—of images, spaces, books, and ideological worlds. His production methods often underscored a major theme he was trying to express through his multi-media work. I wondered if the choice to print the...
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