Victorian
Hans Christian Andersen
1805–1875
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) was born at Odense, the son of a shoemaker, and went alone to Copenhagen at fourteen to look for work in the theatre. He wrote novels, plays, poems and travel books, but it was the fairy tales — begun in 1835 and continued for nearly forty years, to some hundred and fifty in all — that made him known across Europe. Among them are The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Snow Queen.
Sources: Bibliomancer editorial note, written from standard reference facts (dates, places, principal works).
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Books by Hans Christian Andersen
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