Author: Bremer, Frederika [1801 - 1865]. Howitt, Mary [1799 - 1888] - Translator
Title: The HOME; or, Family Cares and Family Joys. Library of Select Novels. No. 17. Price One Shilling.; Translated from the Swedish, by Mary Howitt
Description: New York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1843. 1st US edition thus, i.e. by Harpers (American Imprints 43-738). Also published in 1843 by Munroe, Boston. Cf. AI 43-736 & 43-737. Original publisher's printed brown paper wrappers, sewn. 134, [2 (adverts)] pp. Text double column. Untrimmed. Rear wrapper with advert for "Important Standard Works Preparing for Immediate Publication". 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-3/4". Wear & soiling to wrappers. Tideline to left half, & top margin, of textblock in first third; in lower margin in last half. Withal, a VG copy. "Bremer was a Swedish writer and feminist reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and '50s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. It also inspired Sophie Adlersparre to begin publishing the Home Review, Sweden's first women's magazine. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden." [Wiki].

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