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Hertha (novel)
''Hertha'', fully ''New Sketches of Everyday Life: Hertha, or, A Soul's History: A Sketch from Real Life'' ( sv, Nya Teckningar ur Hvardagslifvet: Hertha, eller En själs historia: Teckning ur det verkliga livet) is a Swedish language, Swedish novel by Fredrika Bremer, first published in 1856. __NOTOC__ History The feminism in Sweden, feminist Swedish literature, writer Fredrika Bremer published ''Hertha'' in 1856. Unlike her other works, she labeled this one a ''Sketch of from Real Life'': she concluded it with an appendix recounting actual Swedish law, Swedish court cases concerning her subject, an assault on the 2nd-class status of women under Sweden's 1734 Civil Code. By its terms, unmarried adult women (unless widowed or divorced) were considered legal minor, incompetent wards of their male relatives. Bremer and her sister had themselves been required to petition Charles XIV John of Sweden, King Charles XIV to legal majority, emancipate themselves from their wastrel brother. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederika Bremer
Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and feminist 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. Early life Fredrika Bremer was born into a Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Högre Lärarinneseminariet
The Royal Seminary, fully the Royal Advanced Female Teachers' Seminary ( sv, Kungliga Högre Lärarinneseminariet, abbreviated KHLS), was a normal school (teachers' college) in Stockholm, Sweden. It was active from 1861 until 1943. It was the first public institution of higher academic learning open to women in Sweden. The Royal Normal School for Girls (') was a secondary school attached to the Royal Seminary. It served as a feeder program for the seminary and was the first public girls' school in the country. History Background and foundation The Royal Seminary was founded after the so-called ''Hertha'' debate over women's rights prompted by Fredrika Bremer's 1856 novel '' Hertha''. Swedish women (unless widowed or divorced) were then considered to be incompetent wards of their husbands, fathers or brothers under the Civil Code of 1734 and could be granted legal majority only by a personal petition to the Crown. The novel argued against that and supported female admission to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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