Abstract
This article postulates that many English translations of Andersen's tales are influenced by previous ones. Scholars have long recognised that most early translators used German translations as support or even as source texts. However, a comparison of two early English translations and three subsequent ones suggests that, right up to the present, translators have also drawn inspiration from or copied earlier English translations. The examples discussed are from the first major translator, Caroline Peachey (1846), Clara de Chatelam (1853), whose work has been much praised, H. Dulcken (1889), who translated more than two thirds of the canon, Jean Hersholt (1942–47) and E.C. Haugaard (1974), who have both published complete translations.
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