Andersen's Tales for Children

Andersen's Tales for Children

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales include famous stories such as "The Little Mermaid," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Snow Queen" (pictured). This translation by Alfred Wehnert and Caroline Peachey was, given its publication date, probably the one that circulated to Trinidad in the 1870s.

Hans Christian Anderson

Pictured text is held by the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature at the University of Florida and available in its entirety in the UF Digital Collections

Tales were published by various outlets; pictured text is London: Bell and Daldy, 1872

Andersen's Tales were originally published in three installments in Copenhagen, Denmark between May 1835 and April 1837; Wehnert and Peachey's translation was originally published in 1861; Circulated in the Caribbean 1872

Courtney Weikle-Mills

Public domain

English

Storybook