:This article is about the village in Surrey. For the school in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, see Stanwell School.

Country	England
Latitude	51.45067
Longitude	-0.48314
Official name	Stanwell
Map type	Surrey
Population	12,067
Shire district	Spelthorne
Shire county	Surrey
Region	South East England
Constituency westminster	Spelthorne
Post town	Staines
Postcode district	TW19
Postcode area	TW
Dial code	01784
Os grid reference	TQ055735

Stanwell is a suburban village in the Surrey borough of Spelthorne. It is located 15.7 miles (24.8 km) west south-west of Charing Cross and half a mile (0.8 km) from the southern boundary of London Heathrow Airport and the London Borough of Hillingdon. The census area Stanwell North has a population of 7,301 and the census area Stanwell South has a population of 4,766.

History

There are two theories regarding the origin of the name Stanwell. One is that it was named after St Anne's Well in the village. The second, and more likely, theory is that it in fact means 'stone well'. Indeed the first few letters of the name are the same as in the name of neighbouring Staines, which also is said to mean 'stones'.

Stanwell appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Stanwelle. It was held by Walter, son of Othere. Its domesday assets were: 15 hide. It had 4 mills worth £3 10s 0d and 375 eels, 3 weirs worth 1000 eels, 10 ploughs, meadow for 12 ploughs and woodland worth 12 hogs. It rendered £14.

In 1603, Lord Knyvett was granted the manor of Stanwell. Lord Knyvett was the man who arrested Guy Fawkes in his attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament. In his will Lord Knyvett made provision for the foundation of free school in Stanwell and the school was founded in 1624. The school building still exists in the High Street but is now used as an old people's day centre. Stanwell's 12th century St Mary's church contains monuments to Lord and Lady Knyvett. It has Norman and Gothic architectural elements.In 1838, an unknown species of rose was found in a local garden and given the name of Stanwell Perpetual.

From 1930 Stanwell formed part of the Staines Urban District of Middlesex. In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, most of the rest of Middlesex became part of Greater London while the Staines Urban District was transferred to Surrey.

After the Second World War, large-scale housing society and council house building began, mostly to house airport workers.

In 2004, the village won a Bronze Medal in the national Britain In Bloom competition in the Urban Community category.

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Stanwell Place

Stanwell Place was the site of Stanwell’s manor-house from the 17th century, located about half a mile to the west of the village, north of Park Road. The Gibbons family owned the manorial rights from 1754 to 1933, and slowly sold off the estate from the 1800's. Sold to John Watson Gibson in 1933, in 1937 330 acres were sold off to the Metropolitan Water Board for the development of the King George VI Reservoir. After Gibson’s death in 1947, Stanwell Place was sold to King Faisal II of Iraq who owned it until his assassination in 1958.

Richard Cox, British horticulturist, created Cox's Orange Pippin apple, first grown in his garden on the Bath Road

Sir John Watson Gibson, civil engineer, lived in Stanwell Lodge and then Stanwell Place between the 1920's and his death in 1947 Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, lived at Silverbeck, Stanwell Moor

King Faisal II of Iraq owned Stanwell Place from 1948 until his assassination in 1958

Gary Numan, singer, was raised in Stanwell, attending the local Abbotsford School

Pete Shaw, author and theatrical producer, was raised in Short Lane, Stanwell

Vonn Ströpp, surrealist painter born in Stanwell in 1962

See also

Stanwell Park, New South Wales

References

Category:Spelthorne Category:Villages in Surrey

Name	Hans Christian Andersen
Birthdate	April 02, 1805
Birthplace	Odense, Denmark
Deathdate	August 04, 1875
Deathplace	Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, fairy tales writer
Nationality	Danish
Genre	Children's literature, travelogue
Influences	Ludvig Holberg, William Shakespeare, Christian Johann Heinrich Heine, The Brothers Grimm
Signature	Hans Christian Andersen Signature.svg

Hans Christian Andersen (, referred to using the initials H. C. Andersen in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and "The Ugly Duckling".

During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. They have inspired motion pictures, plays, ballets, and animated films.

Biography

Childhood

Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark, on Tuesday, April 2, 1805. "Hans" and "Christian" are traditional Danish names.

Andersen's father considered himself related to nobility. According to scholars at the Hans Christian Andersen Center, his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had in the past belonged to a higher social class, but investigations prove these stories unfounded. The family apparently was affiliated with Danish royalty, but through employment or trade. Today, speculation persists that Andersen may have been an illegitimate son of the royal family. Whatever the reason, King Frederick VI took a personal interest in him as a youth and paid for a part of his education. According to writer Rolf Dorset, Andersen's ancestry remains indeterminate. Hans Christian was forced to support himself. He worked as a weaver's apprentice and, later, for a tailor. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet. Taking the suggestion seriously, he began to focus on writing.

Andersen had a half-sister, Karen Marie, with whom he managed to speak on only a few occasions before her death.

Jonas Collin, who, following a chance encounter with Andersen, immediately felt a great affection for him, sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, covering all his expenses. Andersen had already published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave, in 1822. Though not a keen student, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.

He later said his years in school were the darkest and most bitter of his life. At one school, he lived at his schoolmaster's home. There he was abused in order "to improve his character", he was told. He felt alienated from his classmates, being older than most of them. Considered unattractive, he also may have suffered from dyslexia. He later said the faculty had discouraged him from writing in general, causing him to enter a state of depression.

Early works

In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with a short story titled "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager". He also published a comedy and a collection of poems that season. Though he made little progress writing and publishing immediately thereafter, in 1833 he received a small traveling grant from the King, enabling him to set out on the first of his many journeys through Europe. At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, he wrote the story, "Agnete and the Merman". He spent an evening in the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante the same year, inspiring the name, The Bay of Fables. (See Voyagefever.com — an annual festival celebrates it). In October, 1834, he arrived in Rome. Andersen's first novel, "The Improvisatore", was published at the beginning of 1835, becoming an instant success. During these traveling years, Hans Christian Andersen lived in an apartment at number 20, Nyhavn, Copenhagen. There, a memorial plaque was unveiled on May 8, 1835, a gift by Peter Schannong.

Fairy tales

by Andersen]] It was during 1835 that Andersen published the first installment of his immortal Fairy Tales (Danish: Eventyr). More stories, completing the first volume, were published in 1836 and 1837. The quality of these stories was not immediately recognized, and they sold poorly. At the same time, Andersen enjoyed more success with two novels: O.T. (1836) and Only a Fiddler.

Jeg er en Skandinav

After a visit to Sweden in 1837, Andersen became inspired by Scandinavism and committed himself to writing a poem to convey his feeling of relatedness between the Swedes, the Danes and the Norwegians. It was in July 1839 during a visit to the island of Funen that Andersen first wrote the text of his poem Jeg er en Skandinav (I am a Scandinavian).

Ten years later, Andersen visited England again, primarily to visit Dickens. He stayed at Dickens' home for five weeks.

Andersen often fell in love with unattainable women and many of his stories are interpreted as references to his sexual grief. At one point he wrote in his diary: "Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!" A girl named Riborg Voigt was the unrequited love of Andersen's youth. A small pouch containing a long letter from Riborg was found on Andersen's chest when he died. Other disappointments in love included Sophie Ørsted, the daughter of the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, and Louise Collin, the youngest daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin. The most famous of these was the opera soprano Jenny Lind. One of his stories, "The Nightingale", was a written expression of his passion for Lind, and became the inspiration for her nickname, the "Swedish Nightingale". Andersen was often shy around women and had extreme difficulty in proposing to Lind. When Lind was boarding a train to take her to an opera concert, Andersen gave Lind a letter of proposal. Her feelings towards him were not the same; she saw him as a brother, writing to him in 1844 "farewell... God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jenny."

Just as with his interest in women, Andersen would become attracted to nonreciprocating men. For example, Andersen wrote to Edvard Collin: "I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." Collin, who did not prefer men, wrote in his own memoir: "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering." Likewise, the infatuations of the author for the Danish dancer Harald Scharff and Carl Alexander, the young hereditary duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, did not result in any relationships. portrait of Andersen dated July 1860]]

In recent times some literary studies have speculated about the homoerotic camouflage in Andersen's works.

Death

In the spring of 1872, Andersen fell out of bed and was severely hurt. He never fully recovered, but he lived until August 4, 1875, dying of insidious causes in a house called Rolighed (literally: calmness), near Copenhagen, the home of his close friends Moritz Melchior, a banker, and his wife. Shortly before his death, he had consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with little steps." Of particular note is an original scrapbook Andersen prepared for the young Jonas Drewsen.

The city of Bratislava, Slovakia features a statue of Hans Christian Andersen in memory of his visit in 1841.

In the city of Lublin, Poland is the Puppet & Actor Theatre of Hans Christian Andersen.

A $13-million theme park based on Andersen's tales and life opened in Shanghai at the end of 2006. Multi-media games as well as all kinds of cultural contests related to the fairy tales are available to visitors. He was chosen as the star of the park because he is a "nice, hardworking person who was not afraid of poverty", Shanghai Gujin Investment general manager Zhai Shiqiang was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

Famous fairy tales

Some of his most famous fairy tales include: The Angel (1843) University of Southern Denmark The Bell (1845) University of Southern Denmark

The Emperor's New Clothes (1837) University of Southern Denmark

The Galoshes of Fortune (1838) "Lykkens Kalosker"

The Fir Tree (1844) University of Southern Denmark

The Happy Family (1847)

The Ice Maiden (1861) "Iisjomfruen"

It's Quite True! (1852) University of Southern Denmark

The Little Match Girl (1848) University of Southern Denmark

The Little Mermaid (1836) University of Southern Denmark Little Tuck (1847) University of Southern Denmark The Nightingale (1844) University of Southern Denmark The Old House (1847) University of Southern Denmark Sandman (1841) University of Southern Denmark The Princess and the Pea (1835; also known as The Real Princess) University of Southern Denmark Several Things (1837) University of Southern Denmark The Red Shoes (1845) University of Southern Denmark The Shadow (1847) University of Southern Denmark

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (1845)

The Snow Queen (1844) University of Southern Denmark The Steadfast Tin Soldier (1838) University of Southern Denmark The Story of a Mother (1847) University of Southern Denmark The Swineherd (1841) University of Southern Denmark Thumbelina (1835) University of Southern Denmark The Tinderbox (1835) University of Southern Denmark The Ugly Duckling (1844) University of Southern Denmark The Wild Swans (1838) University of Southern Denmark

Influence

Contemporary literary and artistic works inspired by Andersen's stories include:

* "The Naked King" ("Голый Король (Goliy Korol)" 1937), "The Shadow" ("Тень (Ten)" 1940), and "The Snow Queen" ("Снежная Королева (Sniezhenaya Koroleva)" 1948) by Eugene Schwartz: reworked and adapted to the contemporary reality plays by one of Russia's most famous playwrights. Schwartz's versions of "The Shadow" and "The Snow Queen" were later made into movies (1971 and 1966, respectively). Sam the Lovesick Snowman at the Center for Puppetry Arts: a contemporary puppet show by Jon Ludwig inspired by The Snow Man.

The Ugly Duckling ("Гадкий утенок") (Children's opera) - Opera-Parable By Hans Christian Andersen. For Mezzo-Soprano (Soprano), Three-part Children's Choir And the Piano. 1 Act: 2 Epigraphs, 38 Theatrical Pictures. Length: Approximately 28 minutes. The opera version (Free transcription) Written by Lev Konov (Лев Конов) (1996). On music of Sergei Prokofiev: The Ugly Duckling, op. 18 (1914) And Visions Fugitives, op. 22 (1915–1917). (Vocal score language: Russian, English, German, French). The first representation in Moscow in 1997.

The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf by Kathryn Davis: a contemporary novel about fairy tales and opera

The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge: an award-winning novel that reworks the Snow Queen's themes into epic science fiction

The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey: a lyrical adult fantasy novel set in the courts of old Japan

The Wild Swans by Peg Kerr: a novel that brings Andersen's fairy tale to colonial and modern America

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier: a romantic fantasy novel, set in early Ireland, thematically linked to "The Wild Swans"

Birdwing by Rafe Martin, a young adult novel that continues the tale of "The Wild Swans" with the story of Ardwin, the brother whose arm remained a wing

The Snow Queen by Eileen Kernaghan: a gentle Young Adult fantasy novel that brings out the tale's subtle pagan and shamanic elements

"The Snow Queen", a short story by Patricia A. McKillip (published in Snow White, Blood Red)

"You, Little Match Girl", a short story by Joyce Carol Oates (published in Black Heart, Ivory Bones)

"Sparks", a short story by Gregory Frost (based on The Tinder Box, published in Black Swan, White Raven)

"Steadfast", a short story by Nancy Kress (based on The Steadfast Tin Soldier, published in Black Swan, White Raven)

"The Sea Hag", a short story by Melissa Lee Shaw (based on The Little Mermaid, published in Silver Birch, Blood Moon)

"The Real Princess", a short story by Susan Palwick (based on The Princess and the Pea, published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears)

"Match Girl", a short story by Anne Bishop (published in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears)

Le Petit Claus et le Grand Claus, (film, 1964), ((Lille Claus og store Claus) by Jacques Prévert, and his brother Pierre Prévert, French TV 1964.

"The Pangs of Love", a short story by Jane Gardam (based on The Little Mermaid, published in Close Company: Stories of Mothers and Daughters)

"The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep", (film, 1980), French, by Paul Grimault and Jacques Prévert, French title : Le Roi et l'Oiseau (the king and the bird).

"The Chrysanthemum Robe", a short story by Kara Dalkey (based on The Emperor's New Clothes, published in The Armless Maiden)

"The Steadfast Tin Soldier", a short story by Joan Vinge (published in Women of Wonder)

"In the Witch's Garden", a short story by Naomi Kritzer (based on The Snow Queen, published in Realms of Fantasy magazine, October 2002 issue)

"I Hear the Mermaids Singing", a short story by Nancy Holder (based on The Little Mermaid)

"The Last Poems About the Snow Queen", a poem cycle by Sandra Gilbert (published in Blood Pressure)

The Little Mermaid (2005) for children's chorus, narrator, orchestra by Richard Mills

"La petite marchande d'allumettes", film by Jean Renoir (1928)

"The Andersen Project" by Robert Lepage: Freely inspired from two stories by Andersen (The Dryad and The Shadow).

"The Little Mermaid (1989 movie) (Walt Disney Pictures) Based on the original story.

The Little Match Girl (2006 short) With the DVD Release of The Little Mermaid (Walt Disney Pictures)Based on the original story.

The Little Mermaid for actress, two pianos and chamber ensemble/orchestra.

Ponyo got its inspiration from the Little Mermaid.

The Little Match Girl Passion - a choral work composed in 2007 by David Lang. It won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music.

The Ghost, an episode in the third series of the British TV show Hustle is based on the theft of an Andersen manuscript from an old English manor house.

A Designer's Paradise, an episode in the fourth series of the British TV show Hustle bases a confidence trick around the story of The Emperor's New Clothes

Broken Angels (Merciless in the U.S.), a novel by Richard Montanari focuses on a serial killer who murders people in accordance with Hans Christian Andersen stories. Stories included are The Nightingale, Thumbelina, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Tinderbox, What The Moon Saw, Anne Lisbeth, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Snow Man, and Little Ida's Flowers.

"Striking Twelve", a Staged Concert/Musical by the New York band, Groove Lily, about a grumpy guy reading "The Little Match Girl" on New Year's Eve.

"Until My Dancing Days are Done", a short story by Angela D. Mitchell that gave a modern gothic twist to "The Red Shoes." The story was published in Fables Magazine in October 2003, and in April 2004 was voted the 2003 Reader's Choice Award by the magazine's readers.

"The Song Is A Fairy-tale", 20 songs composed by Frederik Magle based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen (1994).

"Prisoners" by Regina Spektor references Hans Christian Anderson.

See also

Fairy Tales Told for Children (1838)

Kjøbenhavnsposten

Vilhelm Pedersen, the first illustrator of Andersen's fairy tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales

References

Further reading

Stig Dalager, Journey in Blue, historical, biographical novel about H.C.Andersen, Peter Owen, London 2006, McArthur & Co., Toronto 2006.

Ruth Manning-Sanders, Swan of Denmark: The Story of Hans Christian Andersen, Heinemann, 1949

Norton, Rictor (ed.) My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters through the Centuries. Leyland Publications, San Francisco. 1998 ISBN 0-943595-71-1

External links

Andersen's Fairy Tales public domain audio book at LibriVox

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales

Works by Hans Christian Andersen at Internet Archive. Scanned, color illustrated first editions.

And the cobbler's son became a princely author Details of Andersen's life and the celebrations.

The Hans Christian Andersen Center - contains many Andersen's stories in Danish and English

Various stories by Hans Christian Andersen (full text)

Short Stories by Hans Christian Anderson

Information about the musical "Striking Twelve" based on the "Little Match Girl"

Hans Christian Andersen dreamscity.net

Collection of Andersen Fairy Tales

The Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense has a large digital collection of Hans Christian Andersen papercuts, drawings and portraits - You can follow his travels across Europe and explore his Nyhavn study.

The Orders and Medals Society of Denmark has descriptions of Hans Christian Andersen's Medals and Decorations.

Hans Christian Andersen Information (mainly in Danish) contains information about his life, childhood home, Hans Christian Andersen House and museum, fairy tales and stories, literary activities, drawings, papercuts and picture pages.

Funabashi H. Andersen Park article on Japanese wikipedia (アンデルセン公園)

Hans Christian Andersen paintings by artist Erik Bagge Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales seen with the eyes and pencil of the Danish artist Erik Bagge.

The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen: A metasite about the fairy tales and other literary works (Includes translations into many different languages)

The tales of H.C. Andersen in several languages: , , , , , , and

Chopin and The Nightingale is a dramatic reading with music in six acts, written by Cecilia and Jens Jorgensen of Icons of Europe for narrator, two sopranos and piano. It enacts the true-life romance of Chopin and Jenny Lind, which happens to resemble The Nightingale story of Hans Christian Andersen. When Chopin dies of tuberculosis in the arms of Jenny Lind, she decides to devote the rest of her life to paying tribute to his music. "Good Morning!", says the emperor / composer the next day. Performed - to celebrate the new Europe and World Tuberculosis Day - at Brussels (2003), Warsaw (2004), Toronto (2005) and New York State (2008).

"Did the emperor suffer from tuberculosis?", essay of March 17, 2005 researched and written by Cecilia Jorgensen for World Tuberculosis Day.

Andersen Fairy Tales

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Playername	Christian Andersen
Fullname	Christian Andersen
Dateofbirth	September 28, 1944
Cityofbirth	Copenhagen
Countryofbirth	Denmark
Currentclub	none
Position	Manager (former defender)
Clubs	B 1903 Union St. Gilloise Crossing Schaerbeek Cercle Brugge FC Lorient AB Gladsaxe-Hero BK
Manageryears	1978-1983 1983-1984 1985-1986 1995-1998 1999 1999-2000 2001-2004 2005-2007 2009-2010
Managerclubs	AB Glostrup IC AB AB FC Copenhagen B93 Farum BK/FC Nordsjælland AB BK Frem
Nationalyears	1965 1969
Nationalteam	Denmark u21 Denmark
Nationalcaps(goals)	1 (0) 2 (0)

Christian Andersen (born September 28, 1944) is a Danish former football player and now manager. He was most recently the manager of Boldklubben Frem

As player he played for B 1903, Cercle Brugge, FC Lorient and Akademisk Boldklub and played two caps for the Danish national football team.

As manager he has managed Akademisk Boldklub a couple of times, but he is most famous for his controversies with FC Copenhagen chairman Flemming Østergaard and former chairman of Akademisk Boldklub, Per Frimann. The first controversy was about Andersen being fired as manager of FC Copenhagen after only one match, and the other because Andersen in his autobiography called Frimann the reason why AB had had economic problems. Frimann began talking about a possible lawsuit, but this was solved, when Andersen made a public apology.

References

External links

Danish national team profile

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