Hans Andersen
He was born in Odense, Denmark in 1805. He was first published in 1835 with a small work of fiction called the "Improvisatore" that achieved modest success. Later that same year he published a book of short stories for children called "Tales told for Children" which immediately assured his popularity. It was to be a further ten years before his famous stories were translated into an English version but when they were, they took the country by storm, affording him celebrity status and the admiration of fellow authors such as Charles Dickens who openly praised his work. He died in 1875 at the age of 70 years old. His first rare edtion in English was called "Wonderful Stories for Children" and was translated by Mary Howitt for the Publisher Chapman & Hall, 1846. Among the most sort after later versions are ones illustrated by Mabel Lucie Atwell, that was published by Raphael Tuck in 1914 just before the outbreak of World War l and a version published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1924. This came in its own special box and was simply called "Fairy Tales" . The text is accompanied by some beautifully evocative pictures by the artist Kay Nielsen.
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Biographies
The Fairy Tale of My Life, Copenhagen, 1855.
Translated into English, with additional material, Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., usa, 1871.
Abridged edition, published under the title The Mermaid Man, Barker, London, 1955.
Hans Christian Andersen, , by R. N Bain, Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1895.
The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, by Signe Toksvig, Macmillan, London, 1933
The Shoemaker's Son: the life of Hans Christian Andersen, by Constance Buhl Burnett, Harrap, London, 1943.
Swan of Denmark: the story of Hans Christian Andersen, by Ruth Manning-Sanders,Heinemann, London, 1949
The Story of Hans Christian Andersen, by Esther Meynell, Methuen, London,1949
Hans Christian Andersen, by Rumer Godden, Hutchinson, London, 1955.
Hans Christian Andersen, by Svend Larsen and translated into English b y Mabel Dyrup, Odense. Denmark, 1961
The Wild Swan, by Monica Stirling, Collins, London, 1965.
Translated into English, with additional material, Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., usa, 1871.
Abridged edition, published under the title The Mermaid Man, Barker, London, 1955.
Hans Christian Andersen, , by R. N Bain, Lawrence and Bullen, London, 1895.
The Life of Hans Christian Andersen, by Signe Toksvig, Macmillan, London, 1933
The Shoemaker's Son: the life of Hans Christian Andersen, by Constance Buhl Burnett, Harrap, London, 1943.
Swan of Denmark: the story of Hans Christian Andersen, by Ruth Manning-Sanders,Heinemann, London, 1949
The Story of Hans Christian Andersen, by Esther Meynell, Methuen, London,1949
Hans Christian Andersen, by Rumer Godden, Hutchinson, London, 1955.
Hans Christian Andersen, by Svend Larsen and translated into English b y Mabel Dyrup, Odense. Denmark, 1961
The Wild Swan, by Monica Stirling, Collins, London, 1965.