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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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BIOGRAPHY. 79

The fame which they attained called forth, in her native
country, a new public distinction. On the anniversary of
the Swedish Academy, on the 20th of December, 1844,
the president, after having announced which of the writings,
handed in during the year for competition, had been re-
warded with a prize, said: —

“The academy being of opinion that it would act in ac-
cordance with the prescribed rules in following attentively
the events in Swedish literature, even beyond the arena
which it has opened for competition, has more than once
had the satisfaction, in acknowledging distinguished merit,
of uniting with the public in paying homage to such merit.

“Tt is now thirteen years since the academy awarded a
prize to a young genius, whose first essays gave signs of a
talent of uncommon order, in a branch of literature for
which we hitherto have been without a model. The rare
union of the qualities of the heart and of the mind, of
beauty in delineation and purity of thought which breathe
through the pictures of domestic life, beginning with
‘Sketches of Every-day Life,’ and continued in a series
of charming paintings of the interior of social life, often
hidden from the eyes of the public, had drawn the attention
not only of Sweden, but also of Europe, to the authoress.
The Swedish Academy has requested and obtained the
sanction of its illustrious patron } to award to the author-
ess, Miss Fredrika Bremer, its large medal in gold, with
the motto, ‘Genius and Taste, not as a reward, for this can-

1 King Gustavus III. founded, on the 20th of March, 1786, an academy,
which, under the name of ‘The Swedish Academy,” and with the motto
‘Genius and Taste,” was to consist of eighteen members, whose object it
would be to labor for the improvement of the Swedish language, to en-
courage emulation in eloquence and poetry, and*sing the praises of the
great men who had either ruled or served or fought for thcir native coun-
try. With the sanction of the king, as patron of the academy, the academy
is empowered to distinguish with the large and small medal in gold Swed-
ish authors for meritorious writings, even when such works have not been
sent in for the purpose of contending for the annual prizes.

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