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To-day these novels, with their slow movement and
minimum of action, their superabundance of dialogue
and description, and their letter form, appear dull
and antiquated. Obviously, the heroes and heroines
can no longer make the impression that they did eighty
years ago, and it may be difficult to understand the
almost phenomenal favor which these household tales
enjoyed when they were first published, and continued
to enjoy for a long time; but nothing approximating
their quality had appeared before, and the readers
were familiar with the background. Fortunately,
Miss Bremer never lost her mental balance because
of either success or failure. She wisely discounted
the eulogistic reviews of her initial efforts,
strove constantly for improvement, and sought truth
and wholesomeness. Her literary achievements were
sensible and moral withal, sensationalism was absent,
and they possess a marked historical value as pictures
of Sweden in her day.
From 1835 to 1840 Fredrika Bremer spent much of
her time on a friend’s estate in Norway. There she
wrote two of her best novels, and there she pursued
literary, philosophical, and theological studies. She
had been convinced of her own ability and mission,
and had decided to remain a spinster, though she had
had several offers of marriage. During the forties
her interest in purely
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