Anne Frank

Standard Name: Frank, Anne

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Storm Jameson
SJ wrote the preface to the first English edition of Anne Frank 's Diary of a Young Girl, published by Constellation some time before the month of September 1952.
Textual Production Deborah Moggach
DM has written a number of TV screenplays, both from her own prose and that of others, and in the form of original scripts, from which several of her novels were expanded. She has adapted...
Textual Production Ali Smith
In addition to these collaborative works, AS has published an anthology of her own favourite texts, those she sees as essential to her development as a writer. Published twice under different titles—The Reader (2006)...

Timeline

12 June 1942
The first entry by the thirteen-year-old Anne Frank (in Dutch) in the diary which made her famous reads: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able...
4 August 1944
The Dutch Jewish family of Otto Frank , including fifteen-year old Anne Frank , were betrayed to the Gestapo after more than two years of hiding in their secret annexe above the offices at 263...
March 1945
Adolescent diarist Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, probably of typhus. The camp was liberated by British forces a month later.
1947
Both the Netherlands and England saw the initial publication of Anne Frank 's Diary.
By September 1952
Another edition appeared in England of Anne Frank 's The Diary of a Young Girl, translated from Dutch by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday and with a preface by Storm Jameson . The text was still not complete.