In researching Andersen, I find that even though the princess and the pea was a retelling from a story that his grandmother told him, Jackie Wullschlager writes that "he mythologized his own humiliations and nervousness - he is the morbidly sensitive heroine of "The Princess and The Pea"...
In researching Andersen, I find that even though the princess and the pea was a retelling from a story that his grandmother told him, Jackie Wullschlager writes that "he mythologized his own humiliations and nervousness - he is the morbidly sensitive heroine of "The Princess and The Pea"...
ReplyDeleteLove the haiku and love the story even more now!