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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/catskin_arthurrackham.png]]
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3	''Catskin'' is an English FairyTale collected by Creator/JosephJacobs in ''[[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14241/pg14241-images.html More English Fairy Tales]]''.
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5	A lord has only one child, a daughter, when he wants a son to inherit his estate. When she's old enough to marry, he orders her married off. She hates the bridegroom, and demands first three fancy dresses, and then a coat of catskin. With it, she runs off, bringing the dresses with her.
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7	She gets a job as a SculleryMaid, and sneaks off to the ball, where she wins the heart of the young lord. The third ball, he manages to track her down and marry her.
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9	Later the cook jeers at her having been so poor. She tells her husband about her father, and her husband tracks him down to find him all alone and wishing he could see his daughter once more, so he brings him home, and he lives with him.
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11	A variant on the persecuted heroine, like ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', though because she is persecuted by a man, classified with those tales, such as "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Literature/CapORushes", and "Literature/{{Donkeyskin}}". See also ''Literature/TheOneHandedGirl'' for a different tale type with a male persecutor.
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13	Full text [[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14241/pg14241-images.html#Catskin here]] and [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/oldsite/authors/jacobs/moreenglish/catskin.html here]].
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16	!!Tropes included
17	* AngryChef: The cook is abusive to Catskin as a SculleryMaid, and even after she marries the young lord.
18	-->''"What! you dirty impudent slut," said the cook, "you go among all the fine lords and ladies with your filthy catskin? A fine figure you'd cut!" and with that she took a basin of water and dashed it into Catskin's face.''
19	* ChildMarriageVeto: Catskin attempts to evade her marriage proposal with demands, and then runs off.
20	* DancesAndBalls: Catskin, having escaped an ArrangedMarriage, works in a [[SculleryMaid menial position]] at the castle, but she dresses up for the ball and wins the prince's heart.
21	* NobleFugitive: Catskin -- noble's daughter to scullery maid
22	* PersonWithTheClothing: The servants call her Catskin because she does not give them her name.
23	* RagsToRoyalty: Catskin rises again -- and proves at the end that she had sunk and risen.
24	* RunawayFiancee: How she finally escapes.
25	* SculleryMaid: The job
26	* SheCleansUpNicely: In her nice gowns

Context Literature / Catskin