The Cinderella tale has its roots in Strabo, the Greek geographer at latest. The D’Aulnoy redaction is another layer of this.

@Allamanda I don't think that the Grimms addressed them at all, not to write them out, but because as collectors of folklore, ( and they did credit their female sources, ) they were not in the same literary world as writers of imaginative fiction living in another country and another era. That would be like asking a writer of science fiction today, to credit A, Conan-Doyles, Shelock Holmes books. It is posssible that modern views of litrary history have made the Grimms into an elephant in fairy tale the room, but that is hardly their fault.

@Allamanda Yes it seems that may well be correct. I googled it and quite soon came up with this, from a creditable source.

"The brothers gained a reputation for collecting tales from peasants, although many tales came from middle-class or aristocratic acquaintances. Wilhelm's wife 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". Wilhelm collected a number of tales after befriending August von Haxthausen, whom he visited in 1811 in Westphalia where he heard stories from von Haxthausen's circle of friends. 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, and it is probable that these informants were familiar with Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé (Stories from Past Times). 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 Gammer.

It seems that the brothers were either deluded or dissembling, yet I can not really see it as a feminist revision, since the brothers still always stated that there main sources were female. It just seems that they were upper class rather than working class females.