Happily Ever After
Mar 04, 2022
3 minutes
DESIGNED BY CLAIRE DRESCHER
Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2nd April 1805 in Odense, Denmark. He was an only child and his family were very poor. His father was a shoemaker and his mother washed laundry to bring in money for the family. His father died when he was 11 years old. Hans was sent to a school for poor children where he had to support himself. He worked as a weaver’s apprentice and then a tailor’s assistant.
At the age of 14, Hans moved to Copenhagen with the ambition of becoming a
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