Fredrika Bremer

Fredrika Bremer, 1801-1865, Swedish writer and feminist activist. She was born in Turku in Finland but grow up in Stockholm. From 1849 she travelled for a couple of years, all by herself, in the US and Cuba, and was disappointed in the promised land, particularly slavery. Her novel Hertha remains her most influential work, it is a dark novel about the lack of freedom for women.

Fredrika Bremer, The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, vol. I-III. Tr. by Mary Howitt. London, 1853.

External links

A presentation of Fredrika Bremer (http://www.sweden.se/templates/FactSheet____4240.asp) from the website Sweden.se.