26* links in the category literary history :
- Hans Christian Andersen on film
Hans Christian Andersen on film. A teaching resource attached to the films in The Danish Film Institute's theme package containing 8 films on one DVD: "H.C. Andersen på film". Introductory articles by Jens Andersen, Peter Schepelern and others.
- SurLaLune fairy tale pages
A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 27 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, over 1,000 illustrations, and a discussion board.
- Hans Christian Andersen in Arabic
Five H.C. Andersen fairy tales translated into Arabic, lists of other translations, and a comprehensive introduction in both Danish and Arabic by Stig T. Rasmussen.

- Illustreret Tidende
Periodical 1859-1924. Contains several first prints of Andersen writings and reviews of his works.
- Anderseniana 2001, 2002 and 2003
Anderseniana, a Danish periodical about Hans Christian Andersen, 2001 and 2002. With English summaries of the articles.

- The Hans Christian Andersen Museum
Hans Christian Andersen's House/The Hans Christian Andersen Museum; with a considerable collection online, including Hans Christian Andersen's study in Nyhavn 18 and The poet's screen collages.

- Dickens & Andersen
George Valsamis on Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen: what Dickens saw in Andersen and how their stories differ.
- Commentary for the fairy tales
Fairy tales and stories commented by Erik Dal, Erling Nielsen and Flemming Hovmann in H.C. Andersens eventyr, vol. 7, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.
- Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Danish literary classics)
Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (Archive for Danish Literature) has a comprehensive collection of texts, biographies and bibliographies of Danish writers from the Medieval until the early 20th century.

- Bemærkninger, textkritik, modtagelse
Andersen's own remarks for the fairy tales, Erik Dal about the text and Erling Nielsen on the reviews at Andersen's time, in H.C. Andersens eventyr, bd. 6, Det Danske Sprog- og Litteraturselskab 1990.

- Contemporary Reviews of Hans Christian Andersen
A selection of reviews of Hans Christian andersen at his own time, with bibliographic notes and an introduction to other kinds of literary criticism of Andersen (among others Søren Kierkegaard and Georg Brandes).

- Danish Writers Association's Hans Christian Andersen price
The Danish Writers Association's price in honour of Hans Christian Andersen.
- Der dänische Dichter Hans Christian Andersen und sein Verhältnis zu Deutschland
On the cultural exchange between Germany and Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen's journeys in Germany, comparison between HCA, Grimm and the german romantics and translation of HCA.
- H.C. Andersen
Icelandic website about HCA. Librarian Jónína Óskarsdóttir has written about the 2005 celebration, the Icelandic translators of the fairy tales, and about the life of Andersen. There are many fine pictures from her journey in the footsteps of Andersen in Denmark.
- H.C. Andersen
Flemming Behrendt on Henrik Pontoppidan's view upon Hans Christian Andersen. The article offers related links.

- H.C. Andersen og musikken
HCA and the music. Introduction, background, composers, texts, manuscripts, music and sound.
- H.C. Andersen og Teatret (HCA and the theatre)
The Royal Library's (Copenhagen) exhibition 'Digterens Teaterdrømme' (The poet's dreams of the theatre), including multimedia.

- Hans Christian Andersen - Father of the Modern Fairy Tale


- Hans Christian Andersen - Manuscripts for poems
Manuscripts from the collections of The Royal Library. The selected 58 poems cover the oeuvre's span of years.

- Hans Christian Andersen in Wikipedia
Short articles with lots of links in the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. You may edit or add content yourself.

- Hans Christian Andersen, 1805 - 1875
An article on the life, works and influence of Hans Christian Andersen at scandinavica.com - The Nordic community online, a website about Scandinavia.
- Ragnar Arntzen on H.C. Andersen
Pedagogic site about HCA. New translations, literary history, biography, interactive education and more. For teachers, students and pupils.
- Romantikken og H.C. Andersen
Tales, paintings and literary periods - a course in Danish. Made February 2002 by Tommy Thambour and Ole Pedersen.
- Silkeborg Bibliotek
This site, Litteratursiden.dk shows a well introduced entry for the novels.
- The Andersen Centre's index of works
The Centre's index of Hans Christian Andersen's works with links to the full text where we know about it.

- The international Hans Christian Andersen conferences
The international Hans Christian Andersen conferences - a range of scholars' papers on aspects of HCA and his work.

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