The title page quotes Sir Thomas Browne
and Hans Christian Andersen
's The Snow Queen, and the book is loosely based on the fairy tale. The autobiographical heroine, Amy, is an aspiring writer working...
Textual Features
Margaret Gatty
Juliana Ewing
pointed out that some of the stories (The Smut, The Crick, and The Brothers, all in a section called The Black Bag) were not her mother's contributions. They...
Education
Jane Gardam
When she was little Jean Mary Pearson's father (later unapproachable) would read Hans Andersen
to her, which she loved. She was considered by her family not to be intelligent, but she taught herself to read...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
EBB
had written her final composition, The North and the South, in honour of Hans Christian Andersen
, who visited her in Rome at this time. It appeared in print the following year in Last Poems.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan.
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Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Patricia Beer
Other unsettling topics addressed in this collection are the funeral of a conjuror, the martyrdom of an English Jesuit in 1606 (The Prayer of Father Garnet), and the neurotic fears of fairytale author...