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more than any other foreign visitor to our shores
expected to find here the real land of promise, where
visions were bright and dreams came true. She came
with an open mind for study and inspiration. Though
anxious to know all phases of our national life,
she was especially intent on studying the position
of women. She had heard of the high regard in which
American women were held by men, and desired an
intimate acquaintance with conditions in American
homes, that she might use her knowledge for the
betterment of women’s lot in Sweden.
Charles Dickens had been here a short time before, had
gone home disappointed and written disagreeable things
about us. What would be the attitude and judgment of
a woman who was the author of half a score of books,
knew Europe from one end to the other, but who came
from such a far distant country? Here was a female
writer, from a terra incognita--borrowing an English
reference to Sweden--whose pictures of domestic
life had agreeably surprised England itself a few
years before; a peculiar Christian soul whose broad
sympathies for heathen antiquity had been interpreted
by one British critic as a heaven-defying heresy.
Here--to use Hawthorne’s description of her--was
"the funniest little fairy person whom one
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