A vintage painting of Swedish writer, reformer, and champion of women’s rights; she introduced the domestic novel into Swedish literature Fredrika Bremer. - Reprint

Fredrika Bremer was a Swedish writer and feminist reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and '50s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. She was born on 17 August, 1801 and died on 31 December, 1865. Bremer’s father was a wealthy merchant who settled the family in Sweden when she was three. She was carefully educated and, as a young woman, travelled extensively in Europe. After her father’s death, her private means enabled her to devote her life to social work, travel, and writing. Her quiet domestic novels such as Familjen H*** (1830–31; The H— Family; also translated as The Colonel’s Family), Grannarna (1837; The Neighbours), and Hemmet (1839; The Home) were popular at home and abroad, with English translations produced during her lifetime by the poet Mary Howitt. Bremer visited the United States, where she was welcomed in New England as a kindred spirit for her antislavery sentiments. She met Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne and wrote about her impressions in Hemmen i den nya verlden, 3 vol. (1853–54; The Homes of the New World). Her later novels Hertha (1856) and Fader och dotter (1858; Father and Daughter) deal with the social effects of the assertion of women’s rights. people, woman, Fredrika Bremer, Swedish, writer, feminist reformer, illustration, painting, close up, smiling,

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