Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish story-teller and poet. He was born in 1805 at Odense, Funen and died in 1875. He learned to read and write in a charity school, from which he was taken when only nine years old, and was put to work in a manufactory in order that his earnings might assist his widowed mother. In his leisure time he eagerly read national ballads, poetry, and plays, and wrote several tragedies full enough of sound and fury. In 1819 he went to Copenhagen, but failed in getting any of his plays accepted, and in securing an appointment at the theatre, having to content himself for some time with unsteady employment as a joiner. His abilities at last brought him under the notice of Councillor Collin, a man of considerable influence, who procured for him free entrance into a government school at Slagelse. From this school he was transferred to the university, and soon became favourably known by his poetic works.
Through the influence of Oehlenschlager and others he received a royal grant to enable him to travel, and in 1833 he visited Italy, his impressions of which he published in 1835 in The Improvvisatore - a work which rendered his fame European. The scene of his following novel, 0. T., was laid in Denmark, and in Only a Fiddler he described his own early struggles. In 1835 appeared the first volume of his Fairy Tales, of which successive volumes continued to be published year by year at Christmas, and which have been the most popular and wide-spread of his works. Among his other works are Picture-books without Pictures, A Poet's Bazaar - the result of a voyage in 1840 to the East - and a number of dramas. In 1845 he received an annuity from the government.
He visited England in 1848, and acquired such a command of the language that his next work, The Two Baronesses, was written in English. In 1855 he published an autobiography, under the title My Life's Romance, an English translation of which, published in 1871, contained additional chapters by the author, bringing the narrative to 1867. Among his later works we may mention, To Be or Not To Be published in 1857; Tales from Jutland published in 1859; The Ice Maiden published in 1863. Research Hans Christian Andersen
Samuel Richardson was an English novelist. He was born in 1689 at Derbyshire and died in 1761.
The son of a joiner, after serving an apprenticeship as a printer he entered into business and became printer of the House of Commons Journals, and King's Printer and was made master of the Stationers' Company.
Samuel Richardson began to write novels when he was quite old and was approached with a view to publishing a model letter-writer. This suggestion was the origin of his first novel, 'Pamela', which was published in 1740. It was intended as a moral novel, and as such met with much ridicule, but was original and full of life. 'Pamela' was followed by 'Clarissa Harlowe',
a somewhat tedious seven-volume novel, written between 1747 and 1748, and 'Sir Charles Grandison' published in 1753.
Critics place Samuel Richardson's chief importance in his introduction of the analysis of human emotion into novel writing. He had great influence on the Continent, being the inspirer of Diderot and Rousseau among others and his novel 'Pamela' allegedly inspired Henry Fielding to write novels. Research Samuel Richardson
In architecture inside finish is a general term for the final work in any building necessary for its completion, but other than the unusual decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, panelled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centre-pieces, etc.; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. Research Inside Finish
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