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	'''"The Frost King"''' ([[1892]]) is a short story written by [[Helen Keller]] ~~when~~ she was twelve years old.		'''"The Frost King"''' ([[1892]]) is a [[fairy tale]] short story written by [[Helen Keller]] when she was twelve years old.

	~~Is is a fairy tale.~~		The publication of the story was surrounded by controversy following the allegation that Keller had [[plagiarism\|plagiarised]] another writer's work: "The Frost Fairies", by [[Margaret Canby]]. This turned out to likely have been a case of cryptoamnesia -- Keller had apparently been read Canby's story at the age of eight, and forgotten about it when she wrote "The Frost King", thereby inadvertantly paraphrasing Canby.

	The publication of the story was surrounded by controversy following the allegation that Keller had [[plagiarism\|plagiarised]] ~~another~~ writer's work: "The Frost Fairies", by [[Margaret Canby]]. This turned out to likely have been a case of cryptoamnesia -- Keller had apparently been read Canby's story at the age of eight, and forgotten about it when she wrote "The Frost King", thereby inadvertantly paraphrasing Canby.

	But the controversy led Keller to a nervous breakdown, and to never write fiction again.		But the controversy led Keller to a nervous breakdown, and to never write fiction again.

Ide Cyan: stub (a very sad case of "but she only wrote one of it, and it wasn't really hers..." interrupted creativity)

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stub (a very sad case of "but she only wrote one of it, and it wasn't really hers..." interrupted creativity)

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'''"The Frost King"''' ([[1892]]) is a short story written by [[Helen Keller]] when she was twelve years old.

Is is a fairy tale.

The publication of the story was surrounded by controversy following the allegation that Keller had [[plagiarism|plagiarised]] another writer's work: "The Frost Fairies", by [[Margaret Canby]]. This turned out to likely have been a case of cryptoamnesia -- Keller had apparently been read Canby's story at the age of eight, and forgotten about it when she wrote "The Frost King", thereby inadvertantly paraphrasing Canby.

But the controversy led Keller to a nervous breakdown, and to never write fiction again.

== External links ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frost_King Wikipedia entry]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060222090033/http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/StoryofMyLife/chap44.html Text of the story (archived webpage)]

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Ide Cyan: stub (a very sad case of "but she only wrote one of it, and it wasn't really hers..." interrupted creativity)