Fredrika Bremer (August 17, 1801 - December 31, 1865) was a Swedishwriter and feminist activist. She was born in Åbo (Turku) in Finland but grew up in Stockholm. From 1849 she travelled for a couple of years, all by herself, in the United States and to the island of Cuba, and was disappointed in the promised land, particularly slavery. Her novel Hertha remains her most influential work, it is a dark novel about the lack of freedom for women. Image File history File links Fredrika_Bremer_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_13623. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Feminism is a diverse collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies, largely motivated by or concerning the experiences of women, especially in terms of their social, political, and economic situation. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... Stockholm? is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Fredrika Bremer, The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, vol. I-III. Tr. by Mary Howitt. London, 1853.
FredrikaBremer 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.
FredrikaBremer 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.
FredrikaBremer was of course trapped in the "swaddling-clothes" of her time, in conventions, and taboos.
Fredrika grew depressed, complained in her diary of her "indifference" and at the beginning of September fell ill with a bilious disorder.
Bremer's urge to socialise came in part from working on the novel, and both she and her representatives combed Stockholm society for "folly and absurdity" to put into the book.
From this point on, Bremer was to alternate the settings of her novels between upper class society and picturesque rural regions such as Dalecarlia, Norrland and the island of Gotland.
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