Hans Christian Andersen

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...

FB's lifelong friendship with Per Böklin survived her refusal of his hand and his marriage to someone else. The influence he had on her thinking was shared by Stina, Countess Sommerhielm , and the academic...

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.

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...

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...

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...

RG published her eminently readablebiography of Hans Christian Andersen .

MH published her first translations from Hans Christian Andersen , The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy and Only a Fiddler!; they were the first English versions ever made from his Danish.

Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen , Tennyson , Elizabeth Gaskell , and Eliza Meteyard , who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens

Having taught herself Swedish during her sojourn in Germany, MH formed a taste for Swedish and Danish literature, and a determination to introduce it into English. She tackled the contemporary writers Fredrika Bremer and...

The museum at Odense in Denmark, birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen , holds some MH material. A copy of R. H. Horne 's A New Spirit of the Age in Harvard University Library has...

One of NJ 's favourite home occupations even as a small child was improvised acting, with her sister in spear-carrying roles. She also learned cricket and football, and her grandfather Collinson taught her whist. She...

AM has mentioned two texts in particular as early influences: Andersen 's The Little Mermaid (whose ending upset her so much that she made up an alternative happy ending) and Dickens 's A Child's History...

EN 's books for children brought her extensive fan-mail from readers. She was conscientious about answering them, often in long letters discussing some moral problem such as the attempt to control one's temper. Some of...

In EdinburghER attended an August 1847 dinner party given to celebrate the completion of the Scott Monument in Princes Street. She met Hans Andersen at a party and remembered him as [s]imple...