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"The Little Match Girl" (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845.
The Little Match Girl is a 1999 adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen story by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a girl who is a street vendor of artificial flowers and matches in a city during the early twentieth century and rather than returning home, as she hasn't made any sales, lights her matches to keep warm, sees wonderful visions , then dies and goes to heaven .
The Little Match Girl Passion. The Little Match Girl Passion is a choral work by David Lang, based on the 1845 Hans Christian Andersen story, "The Little Match Girl". It is influenced by Johann Sebastian Bach ’s St Matthew Passion (1727) and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2008. [1]
Hans Christian Andersen Centre. Hans Christian Andersen ( / ˈændərsən / AN-dər-sən, Danish: [ˈhænˀs ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈɑnɐsn̩] ⓘ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales .
Striking 12. Categories: Adaptations of works by Hans Christian Andersen. Works based on fairy tales. Works based on short fiction.
T. The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit. The Talking Eggs (picture book) Three Little Kittens (Pinkney book) The Tortoise & the Hare. Turtle in July. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Pinkney book)
Lucia Anna Joyce (26 July 1907 – 12 December 1982) was a professional dancer and the daughter of Irish writer James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized at the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich. In 1951, she was transferred to ...
The children's novel Florence and the Mischievous Kitten by Megan Rix, published by Puffin Books in 2019, tells the story of the Bryant & May matchgirl Beth protesting in the summer of 1888 and her meeting with Florence Nightingale. [56] The children's novel Billy and the Match Girl by Paul Haston is about the Matchgirls Strike. [57]