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BIOGRAPHY. : Tt
to procure the means of satisfying the dearest wish of her
kind heart, namely, to assist the poor. She had hitherto
written to give expression to her feelings, and to retain the
images of her ever-active fantasy, and for this intended
work she now wrote “ Axel and Anna; or, Correspondence
between two Stories,” and “ Letters on the Supper-parties
in Stockholm.”
Uncertain whether she would succeed, and uncertain,
too, whether our parents would allow her to appear pub-
licly as an authoress, Fredrika determined to send her
manuscript to Upsala with my brother August, when he
went to the University in the autumn of that year.
He found a willing publisher for her little work in Mr.
Palmblad, the printer. He was, however, so little certain
how far the enterprise might succeed, that he considered
that the edition ought not to exceed three hundred volumes,
and the price of the copyright was therefore low in propor-
tion, although sufficient to make Fredrika happy and satis-
fied. The book was published before the end of the year,
under the title of “Sketches of Every-day Life,” without
the name of the author, of which, also, Mr. Palmblad was
left in ignorance. It gained the approval of the public
and the praises of the reviewers, although not unmixed
with a few friendly remarks. In one of the reviews, it was
supposed that “a lady, a young lady,” was the authoress,
and the critic hoped that when her talent had become
more matured he might have occasion to give her works
more unlimited praise. On a copy of this review Fredrika
has written, “ Yes, dear critic; that rests in the hands of
God.”
This success encouraged Fredrika to proceed on the path
which she had chosen as an authoress, and to try to write
a novel. She occupied herself with this during the sum-
mer of 1829, and the result of this attempt was the first part
of “The H Family,” which, together with some other
minor pieces, she had designed for the second volume of
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