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Hans Christian Andersen was born in
Denmark in 1805. He was an only child. Andersen's father had received an
elementary school education but introduced Andersen to literature,
reading to him Arabian Nights. Andersen's mother was an uneducated
washerwoman and following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in
1818. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he
received a basic education and had to support himself. At fourteen, he
moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor but a colleague at
the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the
suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. |
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ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES
Andersen's initial attempts at writing fairy tales were revisions of
stories that he heard as a child. Initially his original fairy tales
were not met with recognition, due partly to the difficulty of
translating them. Also the quality of these stories was not immediately
recognized, and they sold poorly. Year 1845 saw a breakthrough for
Andersen with the publication of four translations of his fairy tales. "The
Little Mermaid" appeared in a periodical followed by a second volume, "Wonderful
Stories for Children". Two other volumes were enthusiastically received
and a review that appeared in the London journal) said of Wonderful
Stories, "This is a book full of life and fancy; a book for grandfathers
no less than grandchildren, not a word of which will be skipped by those
who have it once in hand". Andersen would continue to write fairy tales
and published them in installments until 1872. |
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