>One of the 3 or 4 hairdressers in the village.

(I’d hope that this is the “before” image….)

“Struwwelpeter” – Shock-headed Peter or Scruffy Peter (Mark Twain’s translation) – is a character in a book of 19th century children’s’ stories, subtitled “Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures” in English.

Dr Heinrich Hoffmann was a physician in Frankfurt who was underwhelmed by the choice of children’s books at the time.

So he wrote and illustrated some stories for his own children, was pressed by family and friends to publish them and the rest is history.

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