The Little Match Girl

"The Little Match Girl"
"The Little Match Girl"
Short story by Hans Christian Andersen
	A. J. Bayes illustration, 1889
Original title	Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
Genre(s)	Literary fairy tale
Publication
Published in	Dansk Folkekalender for 1846
Publication date	December 1845

Last updated November 14, 2024

"The Little Match Girl" (Danish : Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's dreams and hope, was first published in 1845. It has been adapted to various media, including animated, live-action, and VR films as well as television musicals and opera.^[1]

Summary

On a freezing New Year's Eve, a poor young girl, frozen, shivering, bareheaded and barefoot, unsuccessfully tries to sell matches in the street. Afraid to go home because her father would beat her for failing to sell any matches and not earning even a single penny, she huddles in the alley between two houses and lights matches, one by one, to warm herself.

In the flame of the matches, she sees a series of comforting visions: a warm iron stove, a lovely roasted goose, and a great glorious Christmas tree. Each vision disappears as its match burns out. In the sky, she sees a shooting star, which her late grandmother had told her meant that someone is on their way to Heaven. In the flame of the next match she sees her late grandmother, the only person that ever treated her with love and kindness. To keep the vision of her grandmother alive as long as possible, the girl lights the entire bundle of matches she has.

When the matches are gone, the girl freezes to death in the cold weather, as her grandmother carries her soul to Heaven. The next morning, passers-by find the girl's body with a smile on her face and express pity, but they do not know about the wonderful visions she had seen or how happy she is with her grandmother in Heaven.^[2]

Publication

"The Little Match Girl" was first published in December 1845, in Dansk Folkekalender for 1846. The work was re-published as a part of New Fairy Tales (4 March 1848), Second Volume, Second Collection (Nye Eventyr (1848), Andet Bind, Anden Samling), and again 18 December 1849 as a part of Fairy Tales (1850; Eventyr). The work was also published 30 March 1863 as a part of Fairy Tales and Stories (1863), Second Volume (Eventyr og Historier (1863), Andet Bind).^[3]

Adaptations

Amusement park attractions

The Fairy Tale Forest (Sprookjesbos in Dutch) of the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands has a three-dimensional attraction showing the story of the Little Match Girl, called Het Meisje met de Zwavelstokjes.^[4] In this attraction, use is made of the Pepper's ghost technique.

Anime and manga

The 52nd and final episode of Andersen Monogatari (1971) is based on the story.
In the episode 307 of Crayon Shin-chan , "Nene-chan is the Tragedy Heroine" (1999), the story inspires Nene-chan to play the Cinderella game with her friends.
In Hello Kitty's Animation Theater an episode is an adaptation of this tale, complete with its grim ending.
In Is the Order a Rabbit? , Sharo starts daydreaming while handing out flyers, humorously seeing it as a death flag when she connects her actions to the match girl.
Chapter 18 of the manga series Binbou Shimai Monogatari (2004) replays the tale of "The Little Match Girl", featuring the protagonists Asu and Kyou with a happy ending twist.
In Chapter 24 (Volume 3) of Love Hina , Su makes Shinobu dress up as a Little Red Riding Hood-type and sell matches to raise some travelling money to Okinawa. When that plot initially fails and Shinobu starts to cry, a good number of passers-by are moved to tears and prepare to buy all her matches until the two girls are chased off by resident yakuza.
In the Japanese anime Gakuen Alice , the main character, Mikan Sakura puts on a play about The Little Match Girl to earn money.
Episode 201 of Gin Tama , "Everybody's a Santa", parodies The Little Match Girl, where Yagyu Kyubei narrates a humorous retelling of the story, featuring Kagura as the eponymous title character, replacing match-sticks with Shinpachi, a human punching bag.
"Girl Who Doesn't Sell Matches But is Misfortunate Anyway" is the final episode of the 2010 anime series Ōkami-san , which draws inspiration from various fairy tales. The episode features a character called Machiko Himura, who is based on the little match girl.
"The Little Key Frames Girl", episode 11 of the anime Shirobako (2014), humorously replays the whole match girl story from a more modern and lower stakes point of view.
In "Christmas Osomatsu-san", episode 11 of the anime Osomatsu-san (2015), Iyami humorously acts as The Little Match Girl, dying in the end.
Match Shoujo, a manga by Sanami Suzuki (2014–15), is being made into a live-action film starring Sumire Sato, as the title character.^[5]
In "Let's Get Wiggy With It", episode 2 of the anime Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (2003–05), Don Patch humorously recites a story of him selling churros at Christmas time with no one buying, showing a Churro buried and covered in snow in the end, resembling death.
In "Troupe Dragon, On Stage! (They Had a Troupe Name, Huh)", episode 10 of the anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2017), the main characters decide to stage a performance of "The Little Match Girl" for a nursing home on Christmas. Throughout the episode, the characters add their own ideas to the story (such as magical girls and the Forty-seven rōnin), to the point that the performance bears virtually no resemblance to the original.
In YuruYuri Season 3 episode 10, Akari and Kyoko light matches to keep themselves warm when the Kotatsu does not work. They see visions of shaved ice and a turkey dinner. They both survive however.
The cover art for chapter 43 (vol. 3) of Komi-san wa, Komyushou Desu. features Komi-san dressed up as the little match girl in a snowy street holding a lit match.
One Piece cover story from chapter 247 shows former king Wapol, at that point a beggar, selling matches in a snowy street with the subtitles "I'm the little match girl".
In Isekai Quartet season 2 episode 11 "It Begins! School Festival", Yunyun (a recurring character originally from KonoSuba whose running joke is that she is always alone) acts out a play version of the story solo.
In Flint the Time Detective the main characters visit Hans Christian Andersen who is trapped in his own dreams and having his own creations acting oddly. Among them, the Little Match Girls is selling watches instead of matches.
In episode 7 of the Nekopara OVA, the catgirls recount various fairy tales. Among them, is a retelling of The Little Match Girl by Maple — starring instead Cinnamon as the titular character — which is restructured in parodic fashion. Namely, Cinnamon instead visualizes sensual fantasies rather than the idyllic visions found in the original telling.
In season 4 episode 6 of Date A Live , while in the fairy tale world Kotori is based on the Little Match Girl.

Audio recordings

Danny Kaye reads "The Match Girl" on Side B of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (Golden Records, 1962), later re-issued on CD as part of Danny Kaye Re-tells Grimm's & Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (Golden Records, 2008)
The record "Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol" published by Peter Pan Records features a reading on the B side.
The Myths and Legends Podcast featured the Little Match Girl story in a 2020 episode centering on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

Comics

In issue #112 of Bill Willingham's Fables (a comic book series about living embodiments of storybook characters), The Little Match Girl is introduced to Rose Red as one of the paladins of the embodiment of Hope, ostensibly on the night that the girl is doomed to die (Christmas Eve, in this telling). The child identifies herself as "the caretaker of hope deferred", braving the deadly cold and saving the meager pennies she earns towards the promise of a better life in the future, and stubbornly denying that her death is close at hand.

Films

16mm short subject films

In 1954, Castle Films released a 16 mm English-language version of a 1952 black-and-white French short live-action film. Instead of her grandmother, the Virgin Mary, whom the match girl believes is her own long-lost mother, takes the girl to Heaven. No mention is made of the father beating the child.^{[ citation needed ]}

Animated films

One of the Color Rhapsodies (1937), a Charles Mintz studio color cartoon adaptation set in 1930s New York City, directed by Arthur Davis and Sid Marcus, and considered among the studio's best films. It was nominated for the 1937 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), though it lost to Disney's short The Old Mill . This version of the story is slightly different from Andersen's story, specifically near the end.
La Tartelette (1967), a Jacques Colombat short film inspired by Andersen's story, with a black humour twist ending.
Hans Christian Andersen no Sekai (1971, The World of Hans Christian Andersen ), Toei Animation's animated film based on Andersen's works.
In the 1978 animated adaptation of "The Stingiest Man In Town", the character of Ebenezer Scrooge is seen passing by a caricature of the little match girl. Her first appearance during the musical number "The Stingiest Man in Town" shows Scrooge "buying" two packs of matches from her, only to pay her with a button from his coat and go on his way laughing at her expense, leaving her bewildered. Her second, and final, appearance in the special is in the musical number "Mankind Should Be My Business", it shows her shivering from the cold and a now-reformed Scrooge giving her his coat and a handful of gold coins.
The Little Match Girl (2003), an animated short film by Junho Chung for Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film.
"The Little Match Girl" (2005), ADV Films' adaptation released in Hello Kitty Animation Theater, Vol. 3.
The Little Match Girl (2006), the last of four Walt Disney Animation Studios shorts originally intended to be part of a Fantasia (2006) compilation film, which project was canceled. This short was then developed as a stand-alone film and was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, losing to The Danish Poet . This short was subsequently released as a special feature on the 2006 Platinum Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid (1989). In 2015, the short was released on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray Disc ^[6] and is now streaming on Disney+.
"Allumette" (2016) by Penrose Studios Released as a free VR animated film for PS4 and PC.
Emily the Little Match Girl (2021), directed by Matthew Hickinbottom, is a CGI film based on the Andersen story released in the UK on 29 November 2021, with the voices of David Bradley as "Harry the Match Maker", Lesley Joseph as "Grandma", Lisa Armytage as "The Narrator" and Megan Sadler as the title character.^[7]

Live-action films

The Little Match Seller (1902), a short silent film directed by James Williamson
The Little Match Girl (1914), a 9 minute long silent film directed by Percy Nash.
The Little Match Girl (1928), La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes), a 40-minute silent film by Jean Renoir.
La Jeune Fille aux Allumettes (1952), French director Jean Benoît-Lévy's film version, includes a brief dance sequence with ballet star Janine Charrat.
Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne (1953), Danish film director Johan Jacobsen adapted the Andersen story to a short film, starring Karin Nellemose, Françoise Rosay, and Agnes Thorberg Wieth. The film competed for the short film prize of the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.^[8]
La vendedora de rosas (1998; Little Rose Selling Girl), directed by Víctor Gaviria, is a Colombian movie about homeless children victims of solvent abuse, loosely based on "The Little Match Girl"; it competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2003) is a Korean movie.
Matchstick Girl (2015), a modern adaptation short film set in the UK, was produced and directed by Joann Randles.
Match Shojo (2016), a Japanese adaptation of Sanami Suzuki's manga starring Sumire Sato.^[9]

Games

Suikoden III , (2002), a video game for the PlayStation 2, contains a highly abridged play version of "The Little Match Girl". In the game, the player can cast characters in different roles and have them perform a shortened version of the story.
Yakuza 5 , (2012), a video game for the PlayStation 3 has a substory named "The Little Match Girl" during Taiga Saejima's segment of the game that involves a little girl selling matches for 100 yen.^[10] A similar substory also appears in Yakuza (2005) and its remake, Yakuza Kiwami (2016).
The Little Match Girl, (2015), a visual novel for web browsers and Android that tells the story.
In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine , the "Girl Who Sells Flint", tired of seeing that no one buys her flint, starts selling tobacco, various alcoholic beverages and even drugs, stating that "it is much more profitable and demand is high".
THE iDOLM@STER 2 , (2011), a video game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, has a song titled "Little Match Girl" available in the first DLC pack for the Xbox 360 version and available by default in the PlayStation 3 version. The song features a romanticized version of the story. The song has made further appearances in THE iDOLM@STER SHINY FESTA, THE iDOLM@STER ONE FOR ALL, and in the 2011 anime adaptation of the series.
"QURARE Magic Library", (2014), a Korean mobile game that's also been imported to the PlayStation 4 to the west. There is a Kodex card in game called "Little Match Girl" which is a Super Rare + card and features the passive Resurrect V skill for Tank decks. The image is drawn by STUDIO NCG, and its description is very different from the original story, with a much darker ending.
"Dark Parables: The Match Girl`s Lost Paradise", (2018), a fifteenth installment of the Dark Parables franchise. The story involved unexplained fires known as The Flame of Illusion has occurred in Stars Hollow. The recent one involved a rich landowner who was caught in his own home, leaving no traces of bodies or fires anywhere. However, a young girl selling matches was the only solid clue. You, the Fairytale Detective, must stop these fires and the Match Girl.
"Lobotomy Corporation", (2018), contains a character called the "Scorched Girl" who appears to be an apparition with a match stuck through her torso. The game explains that she is a reference to the Hans Christian Andersen fable. She also appears in Lobotomy Corporation's sequel, "Library of Ruina" (2021).
She appears as a playable character in the mobile game SINoALICE (Jap. 2017)

Literature

Anne Bishop published the short story "Match Girl" in Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995).
On page 319 of Clarissa Pinkola Estés' book Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), "The Little Match Girl", the author tells the story to her aunt, followed by a lucid analysis.
In Neil Gaiman's novella A Study in Emerald (2004), the main characters view a set of three plays, one of which is a stage adaptation of the "Little Match Girl".
Novelist Gregory Maguire read a short story based on "The Little Match Girl" over the air on NPR. He later expanded the short story into a novel, published as Matchless: A Christmas Story (2009).^[11]
William McGonagall retold "The Little Match Girl" in a poem.^[12]
Jerry Pinkney wrote an adaption of the story setting it in the early twentieth century.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Hogfather (1996) gave the story a less morbid ending, thanks to the intervention of Death himself: Death's manservant, Albert, notes that the tale of the little match girl is meant to remind people that they could be worse off even when completely penniless, but with Death currently acting as the Hogfather (the Discworld equivalent of Santa Claus) to compensate for the original's absence, he is able to use his current dual status to give the little match girl a gift of a future.
Hans Tseng adapted "The Little Match Girl" into a short story manga, featured in the first volume of Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga (2003).
In Anne Ursu's novel Breadcrumbs (2011), the main character Hazel meets in the woods a character based on the Little Match Girl.
"The Little Match Girl" was one of the key inspirations for the main character Rosemary in Michael Sajdak's novelette Voices of the Dead (2017).

Music

In 1989, Stephen DeCesare composed a song about the famous story and in 2019 re-released it for choral and/or vocal duets.
In 1994, Frederik Magle released the album The Song Is a Fairytale, of songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales, with Thomas Eje and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen amongst others. "The Little Match Girl" is one of the songs.^[13]
In 1988–96, the German avant-garde composer Helmut Lachenmann wrote an opera based on the story, called Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, also including a text by Red Army Faction founder Gudrun Ensslin.
In 1995, German singer Meret Becker included the song "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" in her album Noctambule.
In 1996, Taiwanese singer Chyi Chin included the song "Matchstick Heaven (火柴天堂)" in his album. The song was based on the story and was composed by Taiwanese singer/songwriter Panda Hsiung.
In 2001, guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors released the album The Little Match Girl based on the story.
In 2001, the Hungarian band Tormentor wrote the song "The Little Match Girl", with lyrics based on the story.
In 2002, GrooveLily released the album Striking 12 , a musical based on "The Little Match Girl", which subsequently opened off-Broadway in 2006.
In 2005, Erasure's music video of their song "Breathe" was a modern adaptation of the story.
In 2006, the English band The Tiger Lillies and a string trio released the album The Little Match Girl based on the story.
Bulgarian composer Peter Kerkelov wrote a piece for classical guitar titled "The Little Match Girl"
American composer David Lang completed his own rendition of the original story in 2007. The Little Match Girl Passion is scored for four solo voices, soprano, alto, tenor and bass, with percussion, and was written for Paul Hillier and his ensemble Theater of Voices. The work was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 2008. It presents Hans Christian Andersen's tale in Lang's characteristic post-minimalist style with thematic influence from Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John and St. Matthew Passions.
In 2010, Vocaloid producer Akuno-P (of Evillious Chronicles fame) produced the song "The Flames of the Yellow Phosphorus", an alternate take on the story featuring Kagamine Rin. In the song, the girl must sell all the matches she has, or else her father will not feed her. After lighting a match, she decides to burn her father's house down and steal his money for food, as to not be cold nor starving. She gets burned at the stake as punishment.
In 2012, The Crüxshadows recorded the song "Matchstick Girl" on their album As the Dark Against My Halo , which according to the band's frontman, Rogue, refers to Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.
Tori Amos's 2015 musical The Light Princess includes the song "My Fairy-Story", where the main character reads this story and compares it to her own situation.
In 2015, Japanese techno-rap unit Wednesday Campanella produced the song "Match Uri no Shōjo" (「マッチ売りの少女」, 'The Little Match Girl').
In 2016, Mack Wilberg wrote a rendition of the original story for narrator, choir, and orchestra, with lyrics by David Warner. It was first performed during the 2016 Christmas Concert of The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, with Rolando Villazon as the narrator.
In 2018, Loona's Chuu music video of their song "Heart Attack" was an adaptation of the story.
In 2021, Chengdu-based rapper MaSiWei released "Little Match Girl (卖火柴的小女孩)", which alludes to this story.
In November 2023, StarKid Productions and composer Clark Baxtresser's musical VHS Christmas Carols premiered live at the Apollo Theater in Chicago, featuring a segment based on The Little Match Girl. Originally a 2020 virtual show based solely on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol ^[14] that would receive a live run and recording in 2021,^[15] a first act was added in 2023 to adapt Match Girl in addition to O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi . All three stories are told with their original details intact, including era-specific price points and items, but are reframed with a 1980s aesthetic. In the epilogue of Christmas Carol, the role of the young boy tasked with purchasing a turkey for the Cratchit family is instead given to the Match Girl. When asked if he would like to purchase a match, Scrooge pays her more than enough money to keep her alive.^[16]

Television

In 1974, a contemporarized version set in Cincinnati on Christmas Eve was aired on WLWT. This Christmas special was placed in syndication and last aired on the CBN Cable Network in December 1982. It is notable for featuring a then-9 year old Sarah Jessica Parker.
In 1986, HTV released The Little Match Girl as a musical based on the original story. The cast included Twiggy and Roger Daltrey. It included the song "Mistletoe and Wine", which became a Christmas hit in the UK two years later for Cliff Richard.^[17]^[18]
The Little Match Girl (1987), an NBC television film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and starring Keshia Knight Pulliam, William Daniels, John Rhys-Davies, and Rue McClanahan.^[19]^[20] The film received a mixed reception from critics.^[21]^[22]
In 1990, a modernized version set to original music and narrated by F. Murray Abraham was presented by HBO Storybook Musicals, in which the girl is the daughter of a homeless New York couple forced to live underground in an abandoned subway station due to the economic collapse of the 1990s.
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2013) [ de ] (Germany, 2013), directed by Uwe Janson.^[23]
The tale of the Little Match Girl and the Toothless Goon was recreated through song by Rhod Gilbert on the original Dave TV show Taskmaster .

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External links

"The Little Match Girl" Jean Hersholt's English translation
"The Little Match Girl" in the New Normal Reader
Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne Original Danish text
Surlalune: The Annotated Little Match Girl
"The Little Matchgirl" Creative Commons audiobook
"The Little Match Girl 1902 Adaptation (downloadable)" at the British Film Institute
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English translation (full text) from "Andersen's Fairy Tales"
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Bibliography
Short story collections	Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. (1835–1837) Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection (1838–1841) New Fairy Tales. First Volume (1843–1845)
Short stories	"The Angel" (1843) "Blockhead Hans" (1855) "The Elf Mound" (1845) "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1837) "The Fir-Tree" (1844) "The Flying Trunk" (1839) "The Galoshes of Fortune" (1838) "The Garden of Paradise" (1839) "The Goblin and the Grocer" (1852) "Golden Treasure" (1865) "The Ice-Maiden" (1861) "Little Claus and Big Claus" (1835) "The Little Match Girl" (1845) "The Little Mermaid" (1837) "The Most Incredible Thing" (1870) "The Nightingale" (1843) "Ole Lukoie" (1841) "The Princess and the Pea" (1835) "The Red Shoes" (1845) "The Shadow" (1847) "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep" (1845) "The Snow Queen" (1844) "The Snowman" (1861) "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" (1838) "The Story of a Mother" (1847) "The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball" (1843) "The Swineherd" (1841) "The Tallow Candle" (1820s) "The Teapot" (1863) "Thumbelina" (1835) "The Tinderbox" (1835) "The Travelling Companion" (1835) "The Ugly Duckling" (1843) "What the Old Man Does is Always Right" (1861) "The Wicked Prince" (1840) "The Wild Swans" (1838)
Novels	The Improvisatore (1835) O.T (1836) The Two Baronesses (1848)
Plays, operas	Little Kirsten (1846) When the Spaniards Were Here (1865)
Poems and songs	Barn Jesus i en krybbe lå Danmark, mit fædreland Hist hvor vejen slår en bugt
Other works	Christine's Picture Book (art book)
Works inspired by Andersen's life and works	Hans Christian Andersen (1952) The Daydreamer (1966) The World of Hans Christian Andersen (1968) Andersen Monogatari (1971) The Fairytaler (2002–2003) Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003 miniseries) Young Andersen (2005 serial)
Related	Hans Christian Andersen Museums Pleated Christmas hearts International Children's Book Day Hans Christian Andersen Award Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award
Category

v t e Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" (1845)
Films	The Little Match Seller The Little Match Girl (1928) Stories from a Flying Trunk La vendedora de rosas The Little Match Girl (1987) Resurrection of the Little Match Girl The Little Matchgirl (2006)
Short stories	"Match Girl" "Matchless: A Christmas Story"
Other	Striking 12 The Little Match Girl Passion