Christian Andersen
Submitted by mamabear on November 6, 2011
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Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, the son of a poor shoemaker and a washerwoman. As a young teenager, he became well known in Odense as a reciter of drama and as a singer, but when at the age of fourteen, Andersen set off to acquire fame in Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen, he failed miserably. However, while in Copenhagen, young Andersen was able to make some influential friends who would get him into school to remedy for his lack of proper education. In Copenhagen, he gained access to two families – the Collins and the Wulffs. There he came to know both the bourgeois upper class of the capital and the very lowest stratum of its proletariat. He came to know the fight...
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