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Fredrika Bremer - LoveToKnow 1911 (531 words) |
 | FREDRIKA BREMER (1801-1865), Swedish novelist, was born near Abo, in Finland, on the r7th of August 1801. |
| Her father, a descendant of an old German family, a wealthy iron master and merchant, left Finland when Fredrika was three years old, and after a year's residence in Stockholm, purchased an estate at Arsta, about 20 m. |
| The education to which she and her sisters were subjected was unusually strict; Fredrika's health began to give way; and in 1821 the family set out for the south of France. |
| Årstasällskapet (5787 words) |
| Fredrika Bremer had been the author of the home and the family and had been criticized occasionally for the limited social importance of the aristocratic or bourgeois settings which she depicted. |
| Fredrika, however, succeded in finding a formula for her novels which raised them above the trivial: a combination of high and low, or an "ideal realism", which neither allowed the subject-matter to be reduced to clichés, nor gave it the artificiality which quickly becomes dated. |
| Fredrika Bremer describes or depicts as much and with the same stylistic means as in her earlier novels; the variations in her narrative technique are of the same kind, and the only thing that really separates Hertha from the earlier novels is the degree of seriousness. |
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