RG
published her eminently readablebiography of Hans Christian Andersen
.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
161
British Book News. British Council.
(1955): 1193
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Mary Howitt
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.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
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Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
143-5, 150
Athenæum. J. Lection.
906 (1845): 235
Textual Production
Mary Howitt
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...
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Mary Howitt
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...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan, 2000.
122
Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957.
398
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Patricia Beer
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...
