Two models of women fairy tale creation in Slovenia - women fairy tale writers and women storytellers

This article presents Slovenian female fairy tale writers who belonged to the streams of fairy tale writing in the middle of the 19th century, when Josipina Turnograjska published the fairy tale Rožmanova Lenčica (Rožman’s Lenčica) in 1853. This was much later than the start of European women fairy tale writing, which has its roots in the late medieval period with the trobairitz, and continued in the 16th century. After that the new stream of women fairy tale writers developed with the préciosité in the 17th century. The author researches the development of women fairy tale writing in Slovenia and classifies their creation of fairy tales in two main models: writing literary fairy tales, and storytelling or performing folk tales. Lately, among Slovenian women, writing contemporary fairy tales is also popular