i came here to do lines and fuck bitches and i'm all outta lines
>>8248502
>mfw reading about his visit to Dickens' house
Austistic af
>>8248512
tell me more. i'm intrigued.
>>8248533
THERE is nothing worse than a guest who outstays his welcome, and that was how Charles Dickens felt when Hans Christian Andersen came to stay 150 years ago.
The English novelist's patience was so strained by Andersen's refusal to leave, after staying for weeks, that Dickens's daughter nicknamed him the "bony bore".
The unfortunate episode has been recalled through an inscribed volume that has come to light before the London Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia next month.
The Danish author of fairytales such as The Ugly Duckling first visited England in June 1847. He was a guest of the Countess of Blessington, who attracted the cream of Europe's intelligentsia to her gatherings.
It was at one of these assemblies that Andersen was introduced to Dickens, whom he worshipped, calling him "the greatest writer of our time".
Dickens, who reciprocated the admiration, visiting him at his lodgings the following month. Discovering that Andersen was not in, he left him a parcel containing 12 presentation copies of his books, of which the Olympia example is one.
A cordial correspondence developed between the two and Andersen returned to England for a fortnight as Dickens's guest at Gad's Hill in the summer of 1857. Before his arrival, Andersen had written to Dickens, promising: "I shall not inconvenience you too much." But it was an invitation that Dickens would soon regret.
The Danish man of letters, a tall, gaunt and rather ungainly character stayed for five weeks.
Dickens dropped polite hints that he should leave. After he finally left, Dickens wrote on the mirror in the guestroom: "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!"
Dealer David Brass, who is bringing the volume to the fair, said: "To Andersen, the visit was a timeless Elysium, a holiday, a fairytale come true."
To the Dickens family it was eternal torment. Dickens's daughter, Kate, would later recall that Andersen "was a bony bore, and stayed on and on".
He was, she added, "a social blockhead. Andersen never quite understood why Dickens ceased to answer any of his letters".
>>8248560
topkek
very nice
>all his unrequited love letters
kek, I love how most of the dudes are just like "i'm ignoring that" and andersen goes on lovin em
Good thread.
