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You remember, she is the one who is mentioned in
Holberg’s Epistles and in The Goose Girl by Andersen, and who
was first married to U. F. Gyldenlöve and afterwards to
a ferryman.”
When the first two chapters were finished, an advance
honorarium from his publisher enabled him to follow his
longing and make a trip to the south of Europe, but his
stay there was cut short by an attack of the insidious lung
disease that was, eventually, to end his life. At Florence,
he had a hemorrhage and was obliged to return home to
Thisted, where the family physican declared his illness to
be mortal. He recovered partially and lived to write his
great works, but for eleven years his life was a constant
struggle with physical disability.
Marie Grubbe cost him nearly four years of labor, during
which time he published nothing except a short story, Et
Skud i Taagen (“A Shot in the Mist”), and a few poems.
The first two chapters of his novel appeared under the
title Marie Grubbes Barndom (“The Childhood of Marie
Grubbe”),and were printed in October, 1873, in a monthly
magazine, Det nittende Aarhundrede, edited by Edvard and
Georg Brandes. The completed book was published in
December, 1876, and had sufficient popular success to
warrant a second edition in February. Conservative critics,
however, needed time to adjust themselves to so startling
a novelty, and one reviewer drew from Georg Brandes the
retort that certain people ought to wear blue goggles when
looking at a style so full of color.
Long before he had finished Marie Grubbe, Jacobsen felt
a new novel taking shape in his mind. It was to be the story
of a modern youth and be called Niels Lyhne. It was written,
bit by bit, in Thisted and abroad, and did not appear until
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