Author: BREMER (Frederika):
Title: The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life. Translated by Mary Howett. Third Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected by the Latest Swedish Edition.
Description: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans..., 1843. 2 volumes. Large 12mo, 189 x 103 mms., pp. [iv], 325 [326 blank]; [ii], 343 [344 blank], contemporary half green morocco, marbled boards, gilt spines, red morocco labels; no half-titles, but a very good and attractive set. The Swedish writer and feminist reformer Frederika Bremer (1801 - 1865) enjoyed great popularity in the UK and the USA, thanks to this English translation of Granname, first published in 1837 as The Neighbours. "By the time Bremer revealed her name to the public, her works were an acknowledged part of the cultural life in Sweden.[8] Translations made her still more popular abroad, where she was regarded as the "Swedish Miss [Jane]Austen".[26] Upon her arrival in New York, the New York Herald claimed she "probably... has more readers than any other female writer on the globe" and proclaimed her the author "of a new style of literature".[27][28] A literary celebrity, Bremer was never without a place to stay during her two years in America despite having known no one before her arrival.[14] She was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman[29] and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women includes a scene of Mrs March reading from Bremer's works to her four daughters" (Wikipaedia). A long article on Bremer's novels appeared in The North American Review for 1843, with the reviewer commenting that this work is "admirably suited to herald forth a new literary name. It has passed at once into a popularity more general than it has often been the lot of such a story to secure, having interest not only for childhood and youth, but for a large class of maturer readers, who had long since laid fiction aside, and never expected to see an inducement to return to it again"

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