Slovenly Betsy
Author: first_name: Heinrich
last_name: Hoffmann
Language: English
Year: 1911

Hienrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collection of these printed.<br>The stories were not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries.<br>This American version contains a few of the stories from the original German "Struwwelpeter" publication. (Summary by David Lawrence)