Fredrika Bremer

FB was a nineteenth-century Swedish author, her country's leading representative of women's writing and feminist thinking and action in her generation, and for several more to come. She published short fiction and novels (which were seen as initiating fictional realism in Sweden, in spite of their symbolic or spiritual aspect), travel writings, and journalism. She became influential in Britain, North America, and around the world. Her fame quickly faded, however, and her reputation is only recently being revisited.