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9780815411055

The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

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    9780815411055

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    0815411057

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  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
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Summary

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote.

Table of Contents

April, 1805---September, 1819
Birth in Odense
Description of Birth-room
My Father
A Family Festival at the House of Correction
Odense Sights
The Spaniards in Funen
My Father's Mother
The Lunatic Asylum
My Weak-minded Grandfather
My Introduction to Learning at an A B C School
My Teacher, Mr. Carsten
Gleaning in the Harvest-field
My First Visit to the Theatre
My Father's Reading
His Enlistment in the Army
His Death
My Introduction to Madame Bunkeflod
My First Dramatic Work
I try to learn a Trade
My Mother's Second Marriage
Our House by the Monk-mill's Gate
I am noticed for my Voice and Dramatic Action
Introduction to Prince Christian
My Confirmation
``The Red Shoes.''
I wish to seek my Fortune
The Printer Iversen gives me a Letter to a Copenhagen Celebrity whom he does not know
I leave Odense and set out for the Capital
1(24)
September, 1819---October, 1822
Arrival at Copenhagen
My First Ramble to the Theatre
I call upon Madame Schall
Then upon the Manager of the Theatre
``Paul and Virginia.''
In Search of Employment
A Call upon Siboni, and upon Weyse
Siboni's Character
A Patron is found in the Poet Guldberg
I lodge innocently in a Suspicious House
My First Appearance on the Stage
New Year's Day and an Omen
At the Singing-school
The Colbjornsons
Professor Thiele's Encouragement
Urban Jurgensen's Mother
My First Tragedy, ``Afsol.''
Admiral Wulff
Conference Councilor Collin
I am to be sent to School
25(20)
October, 1822---December, 1828
School Life at Slagelse
The Rector
Mr. Bastholm's Good Advice
My Grandfather's Death
His Riches with Wings
A Visit to Odense
School-days
Antvorskov and its Legends
Soro and Ingemann's House
Petit and Carl Bagger
An Execution at Skjelskjor
My Diary
I remove with the Rector to Helsingor
The Rector's Secret Commendation of me
My Vacations in Copenhagen
Poetic Efforts
Adam Oehlenschlager
I remove to Cophenhagen
My Little Garret-room
Parodies on my Former Poetry
Heiberg's ``Flying Post.''
Examination for Title of Student
My First Book, ``A Journey on Foot.''
Paludan Muller
My First Vaudeville
My Second Academical Examination
H. C. Orsted
My First Volume of Poems
45(22)
1830 --- April, 1833
Travelling in Jutland
A Visit to Iversen's Widow
A Love Affair
A Morbid Turn to my Thoughts
My Sensitiveness
A Trip into Germany
Tieck
Chamisso
``Shadow Pictures.''
Criticism
Texts for Operas
Acquaintance made with J. P. E. Hartmann
The ``Bride of Lammermoor.''
``Kenilworth,'' for Weyse
Molbech and the ``Monthly Review.''
Henrik Hertz
``Letters from the Dead.''
I ask a Stipend from King Frederick VI
I receive a Stipend for travelling
Madame Lassoe
Edward Collin
67(16)
April --- September, 1833
Hamburg
Cassel
Spohr
Frankfort
The Rhine
Arrival at Paris
The Italian Opera
Adolph Nourrit
Mademoiselle Mars
Danish Comrades
Versailles
Paul Duport, the Vaudeville-poet
Cherubini
Hernrik Heine introduces himself to me
Victor Hugo
Letters from Home
The Unveiling of Napoleon's Statue in the Place Vendome
Louis Philippe
The Festival
P. A. Heiberg
Brondsted
I set out for Switzerland
Purari at Geneva
Chillon
Le Locle
The Jurgensen Family and my Home with them
My New Poem, ``Agnete and the Merman.''
Departure from Le Locle
83(16)
September, 1833 --- August, 1834
By the Simplon into Italy
Milan
Genoa
The Arsenal
The Journey from Genoa to Carrara
Pisa
Our Small-minded Guide
Florence and its Galleries
The Miseries of Travelling in Italy
The Water-fall at Terni
Rome
The Second Funeral of Raphael
Thorwaldsen
Albert Kuchler
A Ramble among the Mountains
Dulcamara and Bandits
Another Excursion to Tivoli
Artist-life in Rome
Christmas Eve and its Festival
Home Opinions of ``Agnete.''
Hertz and I become Friends
I travel with him to Naples
Excursion up Vesuvius
Suggestion of ``The Improvisatore.''
Easter at Rome
Wieusseux
Venice
I recross the Alps
Munich
Schelling
Passport Experience
Salzburg
Golling Fall
Molk Monastery
Vienna
Strauss
Madame Von Weissenthurn
Castelli
Journey to Prague
A Bohemian Library vanishes
``The Improvisatore,'' its origin, composition, and publication
99(33)
1835 --- 1838
A Change in Public Opinion of my Work
Hauch the Poet
I present my Book to Prince Christian
German Appreciation
English Translation by Mary Howitt
Other Translations in Various Languages
I bring out the First Part of my ``Wonder Stories.''
``O. T.''
``Only a Fiddler.''
Soren Kierkegaard
Hauch's Criticism
My First Visit to Sweden
Meeting with Fredrika Bremer
Stockholm
Scandinavian Fellowship
Increased Productiveness in Literature
The Collins
Insignificant Returns for Literary Work in Denmark
Count Rantzau-Breitenburg
I receive a Pension from Government
132(14)
1839 --- 1841
New Confidence
The Part played by the Theatre in Danish Life
My Success and Disappointment
``The Invisible at Sprogo.''
``The Mulatto.''
Death of Frederick VI
A Swedish Ovation
``The Picture-book without Pictures.''
I discover Friends when I am about to leave Denmark
En route for Home
Mendelssohn at Leipsic
At Munich with Holst
Kaulbach
Once more in Rome
Satire at Home
With Hlst to Naples
The Fontane del Trevi
On the Mediterranean
A Month at Athens
``Ahasuerus.''
In the Archipelago
Smyrna
Constantinople
The Voyage up the Danube
The Return Home
``A Poet's Bazaar.''
The Spirit of the Criticism directed against me
Misunderstanding and Envy
146(31)
1841---March, 1844
Politics and Poetry
Life in Manor-houses
Winter Life in Copenhagen
The Collin Family
Oehlenschlager
Thorwaldger
177(9)
1842---1843
``The Bird in the Pear-tree.''
Weyse
Journey to Paris
Rantzau-Breitenburg
With Speckter at Hamburg
Cologne
Brussels
Paris
Marmier
Victor Hugo
Martinez de la Rosa
Lamartine
Dumas
Rachel
Alfred de Vigny
David
Madame Reybaud
Balzac
Heine
``Only a Fiddler'' in Real Life
The Rhine
Frieligrath
Bonn
Moritz Arndt
Geibel
Foreign Appreciation of my Writings
Mr. Boas
My Wonder Stories, their origin and reception
186(21)
1840 --- 1844
Jenny Lind
At Breitenburg
Goethe's Family
Weimar
The Birthday of the Grand Duke
Chancellor von Muller
Leipsic
The Schumanns
Dresden
Retsch
The Serres at Maxen
The Countess Hahn-Hahn
Berlin
Savigny
Bettina
Tieck
I am invited by the King and Queen of Denmark to visit them at Fohr
The Journey
The Reception at Wyck
The Halligs
The King's Kindness
My Stipend increased
The Duchess of Augustenburg
207(21)
1844 --- July, 1846
``Fortune's Flower.''
Heiberg's Criticism
``The King dreams.''
``The New Lying-in Room.''
A Mystification
Death of Collin's Wife
The Festival at Skanderborg
Aarhuus
Travelling
A New Journey
At Glorup
Odense
Henriette Hauck
Gravenstein
At Hamburg with Speckter
The Living Fairy Tale
At Oldenburg
Mosen
Mayer
I read my Stories in the Grand Duke's Circle
Berlin
Rauch
The Brothers Grimm
Tieck
A Christmas-tree with Jenny Lind
Madame Birch Pfeiffer
The Royal Family
I read my Stories to them
At Weimar
Richter
Jenny Lind
Auerbach
With Beaulieu to Jena
Hase
Leipsic
Brockhaus
Gade
At Dresden
The Royal Family
At Prague
Vienna
Castelli
To Trieste
Ancona
The Road to Rome
In Rome for the Third Time
New Love for Sculpture
Jerichau
Kolberg
At Naples
The Heat drives me to Sorrento
I write ``Das Marchen meines Lebens.''
Josephsen
At Naples again
To Marseilles
Ole Bull
Reboul at Nismes
Journey toward the Pyrenees
The Terrible Heat
Perpignan
The Baths of Vernet
The Close of this Section of my Life
228(47)
July, 1846 --- December, 1847
From Vernet to Switzerland
Avignon
By Diligence to Lyons
Freiburg
Berne
Basle
Home by Strasburg and Hamburg
Hartmann's Opera with my Text, ``Little Christine.''
Orsted's Words respecting Poetry
Interview with the King
I set out for England
To Holland
Amsterdam
Hospitable Reception
Harlem
Leyden
The Hague
Fanny Hensel's Widowed Husband
A Reception at the Hague
To England by Rotterdam
Arrival
First Impressions of London
I enter Society at Lord Palmerston's
Chevalier Bunsen
Etiquette in London
A Visit to Jenny Lind
``La Somnambula.''
Taglioni
Lady Morgan
At Lady Blessington's
Count d'Orsay
Charles Dickens
Mary Howitt
Frieligrath
To the Howitt's at Clapton
High Life and Low life in London
Westminster Abbey
A London Election
To Edinburgh by York
Rambles in Edinburgh
Dr. Simpson
Heriot's Hospital
Lord Jeffrey
With Baron Hambro on an Excursion
Loch Katrine
Loch Lomond
Dumbarton
I reluctantly cut short my Trip
The Travels of a Cane
Return to London
A Visit to Charles Dickens
Return Home by Ostend and Hamburg
Maiice at Home
I dedicate some Stories to Dickens
``Ahasuerus.''
Oehlenschlager's Criticism
275(57)
January, 1848---March, 1851
Death of King Christian VIII
Schleswick-Holstein War
Letter to the London ``Literary Gazette'' in Defense of Denmark
The Enthusiasm of Young Soldiers
At Glorup in Camp
The Swedes in Funen
Intervention for a Prisoner
``The Two Baronesses.''
Centennial Anniversary of the Danish Theatre
Fredrika Bremer's Visit to Copenhagen
Lieutenant Ulrich
A Visit to Sweden
Gothaborg
Trolhatta
Stockholm
The ``Literary Socity.''
Introduction to King Oscar
Visit to the Royal Family
Madame Carlen
To Dalarne
Travelling in Sweden
Fahlun
The Prophecy of the Straws
Upsala
Return to Stockholm
The Romance of Count Saltza
At Linkoping
Motala
By Gothaborg to Denmark
Publication of ``In Sweden.''
English Criticism
Death of Oehlenschlager
The Copenhagen Theatre
The Casino
Ole Luckoie
H. C. Orsted and ``Spirit in Nature.''
Peace
Death of Madame Hartmann
Death of H. C. Orsted
332(51)
1851 --- April 1855
A Longing for the Country
To Prague
A Summer at Glorup
A Soldier Festival
A Visit to the Seat of the Late War
To the Serres at Maxen
The Bourbons for Travelling Companions
The Title of Professor
At Weimar
Liszt and Wagner
Munich
With the Royal Family at their Country-seat
To Switzerland
Return Home
``The Elder Mother.''
A Visit to Ingemann's
At Glorup
With Michael Drewsen at Silke-borg
A Collected Edition of my Writings
I work at this Book for an Introduction
A Feast given me by Students
New Journeyings
With Jenny Lind and her Husband in Vienna
To Italy
Another Visit to the Bavarian King Max
Home by Way of Eisenach
At Work upon my Collected Writings
``A Village Story.''
``Eventyr'' and ``Historier.''
Conclusion of ``The Story of my Life'' at this Date
383(27)
Continuation. April, 1855, to December, 1867
1855
Greeting to American Readers
A Visit to Ingemann and his Wife
The Nis Story
Visit at Maxen
Letter to Ingemann
At Munich
Miss Seebach
How I obtain Means for travelling
Edgar Collin
In Switzerland
Auf Der Mauer
Wagner in Zurich
Spohr at Cassel
At Weimar
``A Village Story''
410(8)
1856
Correspondence with Ingemann
``To be or not to be''
418(2)
1857
A Visit to the Queen Dowager
A Visit to England at Dickens's Invitation
To Gadshill
Dramatic Performance for Douglas Jerrold's Family
Dickens's Unfailing Good-nature
Leave-taking
To Maxen
A Letter to Dickens
The Unveiling of Goethe's and Schiller's Statues at Weimar
Liszt's Music
Home by Hamburg
Letter from Ingemann
420(9)
1858
I read my Stories before the Mechanics' Association
``The Marsh King's Daughter.''
Letter from Ingemann
Death of Henriette Wulff
Verses on her Death
429(7)
1859
``Little Christine.''
A Visit at Frederick Castle
I read a New Story to the King
A Visit to Old North Wosborg
Hamlet's Grave
From Aalborg to Skagen
The Bishop of Borglum
A Haunted House
Two Ghostly Experiences
Skagen
Jutland Hospitality
At Ingemann's
My Pension is increased
Christmas Eve at Basnos
436(15)
1860
A Statue to H. C. Orsted
Spring Travels
In Holstein
On my Way to Rome
At Munich
The Passion Play at Oberammergau
To Le Locle
Watchmaking
In Geneva
Heiberg's Death
I give up Rome and spend my Christmas at Basnos
451(8)
1861
Travelling again with Jonas Collin
To Nice and Genoa
At Rome
A Visit to Kuchler
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
I make his Acquaintance
A Festival
Bjornson's Verses to me
The Sculptor Story
Mrs. Browning
Her Verses in my Honor
The Journey Northward
At Cavour's Funeral in Turin
Milan
In Switzerland
A Festival at Einsiedeln
At Home
News of Old Collin's Death
The Funeral
A New Volume of Stories
459(9)
1862
Letters from Ingemann, the King, and Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The Four-leaved Clover
Death of Ingemann
Letter to his Widow
The Funeral
My Parting Words
A Visit to Soro
Christian Molbech
The Celebration at Flensborg
In Switzerland at Brunnen
Montreux
A Poem suggested by the Place
Jonas Collin and I set out for Spain
A Flood at Barcelona
Valencia
Cartagena
To Malaga
The Cemetery at Malaga
A Strange Misunderstanding
Granada
The Queen's Entrance
The Alhambra
At Gibraltar
A Visit to Sir Drummond Hay at Tangiers
Cadiz
Seville
Cordova
To Madrid
The Spanish Capital
Burgos
Biarritz
New Year's Eve in Bordeaux
468(21)
1863
Gounod's ``Faust.''
Poictiers
To Paris
A Scandinavian Festival at Bjornson's Suggestion
At Home again writing out my Notes for ``In Spain.''
Death of King Frederick VII
The Funeral Obsequies
War breaks out
``A Song of Trust''
489(8)
1864
The War Enthusiasm
The Prussian Successes
A Dreary Time
Depression, and work to throw it off
A Visit to Madame Ingemann
497(6)
1865
``The Spaniards were here.''
Summer Journeying amongst Friends
Journey to Sweden
Stockholm
The Henriques
Visit to the Royal Family's Country-seat
``Thou.''
Fredrika Bremer
Beskow's Party
At the University Town of Lund
A Welcome
Return Home
With the Royal Family at Fredensborg
Bournonville
Waiting for the Time to visit Portugal
503(11)
1866
An Invitation to Amsterdam
Journey to Holland
The Brothers Brandt at Amsterdam
The Theatre
The Zoological Gardens
Verhulst
Gade's Works
Social Distinctions
Miss Kleine Gartmann
Ten Kate
Leyden
A Drive to the Mouth of the Rhine
The Hague
By Brussels to Paris
The Danish Crown Prince
To Vincennes with him
My Birthday and the Souvenirs sent me
Christine Nilsson
Rossini
A Perilous Journey across a Street
Frolich
I receive the Order of Notre Dame de Gaudeloupe
In Bordeaux
Ristori
En route for Lisbon
Reception by the O'Neills
Castilho
At Carlos O'Neill's Villa
Setubal
Coimbra
Return to Lisbon
An Experience at Sea
In Bordeaux
To Hamburg
At Odense
Carl Bloch
Madame Ingemann
My Home in Copenhagen
The Seven Days of the Week with my Friends
514(30)
1867
Readings of my Stories
My Birthday
To Paris for the Great Exhibition
The Danish Representation
Robert Wall
In Le Locle
At Home
A Second Visit to Paris to study for ``The Dryad.''
French Editors' Excursion to Copenhagen
Home by Baden Baden
In Odense
I am invited by the Town to receive an Honorary Citizenship
The Celebration
The Speeches and Scenes in the Town Hall
A fulfillment of Prophecy
Lahn's Institution
Conclusion
544

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