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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
Anna Carlotta possessed a very sensitive literary
conscience, and if she sometimes disobeyed its behests, it was
only out of consideration for her family, who were wounded
by the criticism to which she was exposed. But when she
felt that the criticism was just, she was always modestly
willing to revise her work.
Gradually the young author grew more courageous in
representing real life, and began to touch on the problems
of modern life.
But she never sympathized with "party," nor became
the center of a fanatic literary circle such as she has been
falsely represented to have been. As her literary works
became more important, and her fame increased, criticism
grew more virulent, and even among her greatest admirers
discussion arose as to her real meaning. Some said that
her entire personality was to be found in her writings,
while the fact is that those produced later, and the change
in her own being, have shown the error of this opinion.
Others, and they were the most numerous, saw in all her
novels and romances nothing but a struggle for the
emancipation of woman, thus trying to limit within the narrow
sphere of a single aim the large and liberal ideas of a
writer who, though displaying quite a special
individuality, was thoroughly objective.
The most common opinion was indeed that Anna
Carlotta Leffler fought for the emancipation of woman with
more courage and energy than any other writer, and this
opinion was confirmed by the fact that around her gathered
all the pioneers of the new school, all the most illustrious
champions of the woman question, and precisely at that
epoch the emancipation of woman was passionately
discussed in Sweden. Anna Carlotta’s house was the
rendezvous for all the adherents of the new literature, who
rendered her homage, not only and not so much as a writer,
but principally as a woman who had raised her voice, and
obtained a hearing, among the most famous men in
Sweden. She was certainly impelled toward the promulgators
of the rights of woman by her lively sympathy with the
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