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Childhood

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Ditlevsen, Tove. The Copenhagen Trilogy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. Hardcover.

· In “Childhood,” Chapter 1, Ditlevsen was five and she stayed home with her mother, Alfrida, while her brother, Edvin, was at school, and her father Ditlev worked.

· Her mother was alone, even though she was there.

· If Ditlevsen stayed very still and did not say anything, her mother would remain calm.

· Ditlevsen saw Scabie Hans and Pretty Lili with their gypsy wagon.

· They took little children to the country in the summer.

· Parents paid them one krone a day.

· Ditlevsen had gone when she was three and Edvin was seven.

· Ditlevsen started at a picture of a woman staring out the windows with her child in a cradle behind her.

· The caption on the picture said, “Woman awaiting her husband home from the sea” (4).

· That...

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