What pair of authors used themes and characters from a fairy tale published in 1812?
Snow White "Snow White" is a 19th-century German fairy tale which is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection "Grimms' Fairy Tales". It was titled in German: Sneewittchen (in modern orthography "Schneewittchen") and numbered as Tale 53. The name "Sneewittchen" was Low German and in the first version it was translated with "Schneeweißchen". The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.
The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples ("Zlatna jabuka i devet paunica") is a Serbian epic poetry. It was published for the first time as a fairy tale by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in 1853. Later on it was published as a Bulgarian fairy tale by A. H. Wratislaw in his "Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources", number 38 in 1890. Andrew Lang included it in "The Violet Fairy Book", as a translation from a German version of Karadžić's original tale. Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in "". It is Aarne-Thompson type 400*, the swan maiden.