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Hans Christian Andersen was houseguest from hell for Charles Dickens!
From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080526
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London, May 26 -- He may have written the most fascinating fairy tales, but Hans Christian Andersen was the houseguest from hell for Charles Dickens.
The episode has come to light through an inscribed volume that will appear at the London Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia next month.
The Danish author first visited England in June 1847, where he was a guest of the Countess of Blessington. At one of her gatherings, he was introduced to his idol Dickens.
A friendship soon grew between the two writers, and in the summer of ...
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