📖📚⏳🕯✨🎨 Thumbelina is a literary fairy tale written by Hans Christian Anderson.
An adventure story from the feminine point of view with its moral being people are happiest with their own kind. They point out that Thumbelina is a passive character, the victim of ...
An adventure story from the feminine point of view with its moral being people are happiest with their own kind. They point out that Thumbelina is a passive character, the victim of ...
...circumstances; whereas her male counterpart Tom Thumb (one of the tale's inspirations) is an active character, makes himself felt, and exerts himself.
Danish critics were not enthusiastic.
Hans Christian Andersen in 1836
Danish critics were not enthusiastic.
Hans Christian Andersen in 1836
The informal, chatty style of the tales and their lack of morals were considered inappropriate in children's literature.
Thumbelina, Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen,
Andersen's first illustrator
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Thumbelina, Illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen,
Andersen's first illustrator
#fairytales
The critical reaction to the 1835 tales was so harsh that he waited an entire year before publishing "The Little Mermaid" and "The Emperor's New Clothes". #mjsartstories #History #arthistory #dailyart #artist #arts #artwork #inspiration #MuseumFromHome #SocialDistancing
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