Fredrika Bremer

Fredrika Bremer (1801-65), Swedish novelist, born in Åbo, Finland, and privately educated at Årsta, Sweden, where her family moved when she was three years old. Her first work, Sketches of Everyday Life (1828), attracted little notice, but The H. Family (1829) was an immediate success. With these novels Bremer introduced into Sweden a literary genre already familiar in England, the novel of domestic life and manners. The President's Daughters (1834) and The Home (1839) established her reputation in Britain and the United States. Her journeys in Europe, Palestine, and the U.S. furnished materials for her Homes of the New World (3 volumes, 1853-54). Her later novels deal with social issues such as the education and emancipation of women.