America of the Fifties Letters of Fredrika Bremer
A Swedish novelist and ardent feminist makes her notes on America. Interesting observations on American culture (politics, race relations, manners, education, etc.), having traveled through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Mid-West, and the South.
HistoryUnited States19th CenturyTravelEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERApplewood Books
LENGTH380
LANGUAGEEN
Fredrika Bremer was a Swedish writer and pioneer feminist. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school.
America of the Fifties Letters of Fredrika Bremer
A Swedish novelist and ardent feminist makes her notes on America. Interesting observations on American culture (politics, race relations, manners, education, etc.), having traveled through New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Mid-West, and the South.
HistoryUnited States19th CenturyTravelEssays & Travelogues
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERApplewood Books
LENGTH380
LANGUAGEEN
Fredrika Bremer was a Swedish writer and pioneer feminist. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school.
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