Fredrika Bremer
![Copy of a portrait by [[Johan Gustaf Sandberg]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/A_replica_or_study_of_Johan_Gustaf_Sandberg%27s_portrait_of_Fredrika_Bremer.jpg)
Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s 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 unmarried 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 as well as the later magazine ''Hertha''. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden.Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
Published 1856New York : Leavitt & Allen, 1856, c1853.lxxi, 557 p., 7 l. of plates : ill., plans ; 24 cm.Other Authors: “...Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865...”
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7by Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852
Published 1853New York, Putnam, 1853.2 p. ̋., [iii]-ixxi, 557 p. front, (port.) illus., plates, plans. 24 cm.Other Authors: “...Bremer, Fredrika, 1801-1865...”