The article mentions Dickens a couple of times, but neglects to talk about when Dickens told Andersen that if he was ever in London he should drop in. The casual invitation turned into a five week stay despite increasingly panicky hints from the Dickens family that he should really leave.
Is there a source about that you could link to? Not challenging you, just interested to read about it!
I read about this in Odense at either his house or the museum? But it looks like it’s made his Wikipedia page,[1] with a Danish citation.[2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen#Meetin...
[2] https://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk/?page_id=3683
There's also a solo tabletop RPG that someone made about it: https://x.com/Sotherans/status/1513210507506954250?lang=en
That's hilarious!
HCA is famous for overstaying his welcome when invited. There was a pattern :D