I have scoured the internet in search of a list of English translations of the short stories written by Hans Christian Andersen. It feels like something that should exist. There should be a comparison of the different translations. But I have only fragments. Does anyone know of such a list or have the information themselves? Here is a list of the ones that I have found in my search. It is surely incomplete. If you know of others, please post them!
- Mary Howitt (1846, 1848)
- Caroline Peachey (1846-1861, 1870)
- Charles Boner (1846-1850)
- Meta Taylor? (1847)
- James Burns? (1847)
- Charles Beckwith (1847)
- Madame de Chatelain (1852)
- Mrs. Bushby (1853, 1860, 1863)
- Hanby Crump (1856)
- Anonymous (1860?)
- H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D. (1864-1866, 1867, more, but hard to find ebooks and it's a bunch of scattered collections with just 0-5 additional stories each)
- H. P. Paull (1872?)
- Jean Hersholt (1949)
- Reginald Spink (1958)
- L. W. Kingsland (1959)
- Pat Shaw Iversen (1966)
- Erik Christian Haugaard (1974)
- R. P. Keigwin (1976)
- Patricia L. Conroy and Sven H. Rossel (1980)
- Neil Philip (1995)
- Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank (2003)
- Tiina Nunnally (2004)
- Maria Tatar and Julie K. Allen (2007)
- John Irons (2022)
Edit: I have found some lists of translations. None of them go past 2007, so I don't know if there are any other translations after The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen by Tatar for W. W. Norton & Company besides Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories by Irons for The Hans Christian Andersen Center, but I've started going through the lists to add those I can find up to that point. I am currently up to 1852. These stories were quite popular in the 1840s it would seem. Here are the resources I've found that I'm using. None of them are complete, and this list won't be either, but it'll be as close as I can I suppose
- https://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/A/hans-christian-andersen.html
- https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ch.cgi?19348
- https://andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/index_e.html
- https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/scandinavian-literature-biographies/hans-christian-andersen
- https://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsform.aspx
Edit 2: the actual answer to my question in the OP: https://andersen.sdu.dk/forskning/bib/sprog/?cent=0&sprog=eng&visalle=1 Page is in Danish, but it’s got it all
Edit 3: So apparently Hans Christian Andersen is one of the ten most translated authors and just before the year 2,000 there are already 34+ English translations:
Most translations of Andersen are anonymous, but the prominent named translators begin with Mary Botham Howitt, who produced the first English translation of an Andersen book in 1845 {The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy). Other significant translators from the remaining thirty-three are Charles Beckwith-Lohmeyer, Charles Boner, Mrs. Anne S. Bushby, Henry William Dulcken, Mrs. Henry B. Pauli, Caroline Peachey, and Augusta Plesner and Henry Ward. The other translators are W. Angeldorff, E. Ashe, Robert Nisbet Bain, Edward Bell, Hans Lien Brsekstad, Thomas Bertrand Bronson, Louey Chisholm, F. Crawford, Hanby Crump, Madame de Châtelain [Clara de Pontigny], Fanny Fuller, Louisa L. Greene and F.M.S., Mrs. Edgar Lucas, K.R.K. MacKenzie, R.G. Parker and J. Madison Watson, A.M. Plesner, Susan Rugeley-Powers, Carl Siewers, Heinrich Oscar Sommer, D. Spillan, Meta Taylor, and Alfred Wehnert
-A Bibliography of Modern Scandinavian Literature: (Excluding H.C. Andersen) in English Translation, 1533 to 1900, and Listed by Translator. Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University, 2005