From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
1838
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In this year
A Russian translation of Xavier Marmier's article about HCA is published: "Datskij poét Andersen (Biblioteka dlja ctenija).
In this year
HCA's friend, Henriette Hanck, anonymously publishes the novel Aunt Anna. An Autumn Sketch. A German edition appears in 1845, just as her second novel, Daughter of an Authoress, from 1842, appears in both Swedish (1844) and German (1846).