Fredrika Bremer

She was educated mostly abroad, and as a young woman travelled through Egypt, Palestine, and Greece preparatory to writing a biography of Fredrika Bremer . She converted to Catholicism well before her mother. After living...

Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

Closest to CMS were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,...

During the winter she spent in Sweden she found herself housebound following a sledding accident. She was visited daily at this time by the well-known Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer .

Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer , Anna Brownell Jameson , Frances Power Cobbe , Thomas Carlyle , George MacDonald , Lady Eastlake , Elizabeth Rundle Charles , Lady Martin

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

Sally Mitchell compares The Head of the Family to the large-cast family story written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton , or by Fredrika Bremer as recently translated by Mary Howitt .

The Athenæum praised The Smiths highly, calling it one of the best Novels we have had since the publication of Fredrika Bremer 's Home.

Fredrika Bremer contributed a laudatory preface for the German translations of both Work and Wages and Love and Money.

In 1930, once she was back in England, she found she could earn her living by journalism for Punch and the Fortnightly Review. She was attuned to writing by women from an early stage...

Around the time of Ruth's appearance, Swedish novelist and feminist Fredrika Bremer (who was probably introduced to EG by William and Mary Howitt ) wrote: Dear Elizabeth, dear sister in spirit, if I may...

The Neighbours, the first of MH 's translations of the much-admired Swedish writer Fredrika Bremer appeared; The President's Daughters; including Nina came out the following year.

This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent...

Having taught herself Swedish during her sojourn in Germany, MH formed a taste for Swedish and Danish literature, and a determination to introduce it into English. She tackled the contemporary writers Fredrika Bremer and...