Female writers of the Romantic movement did not have the academic training in literary tradition enjoyed by the majority of their male colleagues...
The ideal of womanhood, as described in the eighteenth-century moral tales and bourgeois stage comedies, was not hushed and inarticulate. But it...
The eighteenth century can exhibit many pictures of women who, directly and in particular indirectly, are occupied with their own literary...
The Danish author Anna Margrethe Lasson decided to tackle the novel genre head-on by writing her own prose novel. This resulted in Den...
The Female Pattern in Folk Poetry and Folklore Collection
While the new women’s movement in the course of the 1970s brought the reader out and made her a writer, confessor, or debater in a large-scale...
Under her pseudonym ‘Harold Gote’ (Harold the Goth: the Gothic/Nordic herald), Frida Stéenhoff was to present some of the most progressive and...
The Swedish writer Hilma Angered-Strandberg offers something of an aesthetic manifesto. She wants her fiction to spring forth, both “from a desire...
Hiding behind the pseudonym Stella Kleve was Mathilda Kruse, a young woman from the south-Swedish province of Scania who was later to be known as...
The Swedish author Victoria Benedictsson felt like “a pariah, a mangy dog”. Before she settled on the pseudonym Ernst Ahlgren, she had long...
Henrik Ibsen did not always go unchallenged. On the contrary, several of the women of the Modern Breakthrough felt provoked to correct or revise...
In texts by female authors, work can often be combined with love and marriage, no matter whether the woman chooses regular paid employment or...
