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could imagine," "a withered brier rose, still
retaining the freshness of morning," and "worthy of
being the maiden aunt of the whole human race." She
came here by invitation, her reputation having
preceded her by several years. In the early forties
American magazines had devoted scores of pages to
the reviews of her books, and the American chargé
d’affaires in Stockholm had sent home the report of
an interview with the modest Swede, who, contrary to
his expectations, had preferred to talk on political
economy, morality, and philosophy. Moreover, a New
England pathfinder, in discussing Miss Bremer’s works,
had discovered that Vikings and Yankees had certain
fundamental traits in common, though with the odds
in favor of the latter; that her literary characters
were "as much at home in Boston as in Stockholm,"
and were "not simply Swedes and Norwegians, but men
and women." One of these, Susanna, "would have found
herself quite at home in a Massachusetts farmhouse."
This augured well. Anne Lynch believed Miss Bremer
a salutary antidote to George Sand. Catherine
Sedgwick found her "a slightly old-fashioned lady,
simple and sincere, dressed in sombre colors, with
a florid but not coarse complexion, and a mouth like
Longfellow’s." She liked her better the more she saw
of her, was ashamed
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