The Story of My Life is number 803 in the Hans Christian Andersen Center's register of Andersen's literary works, i.e. no. 3 in the category autobiography (the range 801 - 900).

The Story of My Life was first published in English September 1871.

Bibliographic description of the first publication containing this work, quoted from the Danish bibliography H.C. Andersen-Centrets bibliografiske optegnelser:

The Story of My Life

Fortsættelsen på Andersens anden officielle selvbiografi Mit Livs Eventyr. Fortsættelse. (1855-1867) udkom først på engelsk i den amerikanske udgave af The Story of My Life ved Horace Scudder: Hans Christian Andersen. Author's Edition, Hurd and Houghton, New York. Sampson Low, Son and Marston, London. 1871. 569 p. - Anm.: Littell's Living Age, 9.9.1871; The Spectator, 14.9.1872, pp. 1173-74.

Udkom senere på dansk: H. C. Andersens Samlede Skrifter. Supplement til Mit Livs Eventyr, 1877.

(Bibliografisk kilde: HCAH 1972/100. am: 1950/82, anm.: 1954/515)

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Editions

The first Danish edition: The first Danish edition (May 1877): H. C. Andersens / Samlede Skrifter. / Supplement / til / »Mit Livs Eventyr«. / - / Kjøbenhavn. / C. A. Reitzels Forlag. / 1877.

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