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BIOGRAPHY. 81
failing, had, some time previous to Fredrika’s return, fallen
into a state of hectic decline. Calmly, and apparently with-
out pain, she departed this life. In order that Fredrika
should not return to her own home unprepared for this
painful loss, and not find Agatha any more there, my
mother aud I wished to inform her of this sad event. We
knew that she was on her way home, but we did not know
which route she intended to take. In this uncertainty, let-
ters were despatched to her both to Dalaré and to Gothen-
burg. ‘The former she received on her arrival in Sweden,
and her return to Stockholm and her home was any thing
but joyful.
After a few days’ rest, Fredrika resumed her old habits
and occupations.’ The forenoons were devoted to reading
and writing. During these moments no one was allowed
to enter the room, and she received no visitors until one
o’clock, when she usually went out to breathe a little fresh
air, or to visit some friend. Fredrika was allowed to man
age and act as it best suited her convenience, and she
therefore now led an independent life at home.
Fredrika had during her career as an authoress, partly
in consequence of her own experience in youth and partly
from what she had witnessed in the world, made it the aim
of her life to labof in the cause of Woman, oppressed, ac-
cording to her notions; and on her return from America, ‘t
became her favorite idea to work for the entire emancipa-
tion of the Swedish woman and her deliverance from the
traditional restrictions in her social position, which Fredrika
considered to be both injurious and opposed to her natural
rights. She wished, therefore, that women should, like
men, and together with them, be allowed to study in the
elementary schools and at the academies, in order to gain
an opportunity of obtaining employments and situations
suitable for them, in the service of the state. According
to Fredrika’s ideas it was a crying injustice to deny women,
even those with exceedingly brilliant intellect and great
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