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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![Cover of: New sketches of every-day life: a diary. Together with Strife and peace. Translated [from the Swedish] by Mary Howitt.](http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5899445-M.jpg "Cover of: New sketches of every-day life: a diary. Together with Strife and peace. Translated [from the Swedish] by Mary Howitt.")
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Description and travel, Fiction, Social life and customs, Swedish Authors, Correspondence, Authors, Swedish, Biography, Children of presidents, Civilization, Governesses, Travel, Women, Danish National characteristics, Families, Fathers and daughters, History, Patriotic literature, Social conditions, Sources, Translations into English, United states, history, 1815-1861, Women's rights, Atonement, Bremer, Fredrika, -- 1801-1865., ChristianityPlaces
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- OLID: OL329552A
- GoodReads: 815240
- ISNI: 0000000123200572
- Library of Congress Names: n50042464
- LibraryThing: bremerfredrika
- LibriVox: 11473
- Project Gutenberg: 1775
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): MILV180612
- VIAF: 24616251
- Wikidata: Q262145
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q262145