The Colonel's Family (Series B (Norvik Press), No. 20,)
Often characterized as Sweden's Charlotte Brontë, Fredrika Bremer was widely translated during her lifetime and became internationally acclaimed as the author of an impressive series of novels and travel books. The Colonel's Family first appeared as Sketches from Daily Life (1830). Her novel, now recognized as a sensitive exploration of the life of a frustrated woman, is written in what is unexpectedly modern experimental prose. ""Her portrayal of a household full of women whose personalities are shaped by the marital conventions of their time suggests a Scandinavian Jane Austen; and in her use of an irreverent female servant as narrator and central consciousness, Bremer infuses this otherwise simplistic melodrama with an intriguingly modern feminist slant."" Kirkus Reviews
FICTION_ROMANCE_GENERAL
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERNorvik Pr
LENGTH244
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.
The Colonel's Family (Series B (Norvik Press), No. 20,)
Often characterized as Sweden's Charlotte Brontë, Fredrika Bremer was widely translated during her lifetime and became internationally acclaimed as the author of an impressive series of novels and travel books. The Colonel's Family first appeared as Sketches from Daily Life (1830). Her novel, now recognized as a sensitive exploration of the life of a frustrated woman, is written in what is unexpectedly modern experimental prose. ""Her portrayal of a household full of women whose personalities are shaped by the marital conventions of their time suggests a Scandinavian Jane Austen; and in her use of an irreverent female servant as narrator and central consciousness, Bremer infuses this otherwise simplistic melodrama with an intriguingly modern feminist slant."" Kirkus Reviews
FICTION_ROMANCE_GENERAL
RELEASED1996
PUBLISHERNorvik Pr
LENGTH244
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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