Snow White, or The House in the Wood by Laura E. Richards. This edition is a republishing of Snow White, or the House in the Wood by Laura E. Richards first published by DANA ESTES & COMPANY Colonial Press and by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U.S.A.. "Snow White" is a nineteenth-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 "Schneewei�chen". The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854.