What were Cinderella’s step-sisters’ names? All I get on the internet is childish versions of the story and offers to sell it.
Their names were Drizella and Anastasia.
(I searched for “What were Cinderella’s step-sisters’ names?” on Google.com)
Chris S
The comic opera Cinderella by Rossini (La Cenerentola) has it that the sisters were “Clorinda” (the elder) and “Tisbe”.
There was no wicked step father in this one, just a greedy but doltish stepfather - Don Magnifico.
I believe Drizella and Anastasia were Disney fabrications.
Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s had the sisters as “Calliope” and “Minerva”. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0128996
Tinker
Neither the brothers Grimm nor Perrault had given the sisters names in their re-telling of Cinderella’s story.
According to this, Perrault does name one of the sisters: Charlotte.
I don’t think that’s right obfusciatrist. After your post i went to check several versions available on the internet (do a google search for “perrault cendrillon”). None of the versions I found had the name “Charlotte”. Here’s one site.
I’ll check in my book of Perrault tales at home to be 100% sure.
Arnold,
I just talked to Kevin Yee about this (the author of the piece I pointed you to). He said that the name in French is “Javotte” but he used “Charlotte” because that is how it was translated in one text.
I did a quick search of the text you linked to, and Javotte is in it (though I can’t read the French to confirm absolutely that it is referencing one of the step-sisters).
In the 1965 TV version, starring Lesley Ann Warren, they were Prunella and Esmerelda. To this day I have a terrific crush on Ms Warren because of that program.
Well I’ll be damned! I was wrong. Perrault does name one of the sisters Javotte, as obfusciatrist said. I checked in my book at home (contes de Perrault, illustred by Gustave Doré) and the name does appear. Also on the web page to which I provided a link. Mea culpa.