num_pages: 206
description: In 1831, a new novel captivated the reading public in Sweden. It was intelligent, clever and strikingly well-informed in matters concerning women. It was published anonymously.It did not take long before it leaked out that the author was Fredrika Bremer, who soon accommodated her enthusiastic readers with another novel, and then another, and another. But the more discriminating readers soon detected a distinct prodding in her books and began to Who does she think she is?Fredrika Bremer's aim was no longer just to she wanted to educate. She yearned to make women stand up as equal partners. She took positions on political questions, and she started social projects. From her deep Christian conviction, she chided the church for its political conservatism as well as its theological rigidity. She needled the government to change its laws. In the 1840s she was an internationally renowned novelist, listened to by a great many women who pondered her words - and even by some men.But Fredrika Bremer wanted to see action. She reached beyond Europe to the United States. For two years she travelled in America, and wrote a fabulous account of her journey. The Homes of the New World became a classic. She returned to Sweden with renewed courage to speak up for the rights of women.
language: English
title: The Education of a Self-Made Woman, Fredrika Bremer, 1801-1865
titlecomplete: The Education of a Self-Made Woman, Fredrika Bremer, 1801-1865
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr