Strife and Peace, by Fredrika Bremer, translated by Mary Howitt. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish author and social activist. Her works were extremely popular, and translated into many languages. According to Sweden.se,
Her readers were often women. They understood that she depicted women’s lives, pains and joys as no one had done before. Through her books the family, the household, love entanglements, and the psychological relations between men and women became new literary themes. Her entrance into literature marks the birth of the bourgeois novel in Sweden. It can be described as the dean of Swedish literary history, Henrik Schück, has done: “Before her time the novel in Sweden had been more or less pleasure reading, a literature of which the educated classes were almost ashamed. Fredrika Bremer gave the novel a philosophical content, it became a part—and an important part—of the cultural development. It was ennobled, so to speak.”
One website claims that Frederika, Iowa is named for her. The town is located in Bremer county.
This book is sweet romantic novella. It was bound with The Home, or Life in Sweden as part of a library of Miss Bremer’s works.
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