Author: Bremer, Frederika [1801 - 1865]
Title: The PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTERS. A Narrative of a Governess. Library of Select Novels. No. 17. Price One Shilling.; Translated from the Swedish. By A Lady
Description: Boston: Published by James Munroe and Company, 1843. 1st US edition thus, i.e. by Munroe (American Imprints 43-744). Also published in 1843 by Wincester & Harpers. Original publisher's printed pale blue paper wrappers, sewn. 86, [2 (blank)] pp. Text double column. Untrimmed. Front wrapper with Boston imprint: Saxton, Peirce & Co [not in American Imprints]. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6". Wear & soiling to wrappers, which are beginning to detach. Tideline in lower margin of textblock. Lacks upper corner of rear wrapper. An About 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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