After a marriage to celebrated Danish writer Jeppe Aakjær that did not last, Marie Bregendahl coped with life as a single mother by keeping house...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the ‘sons of the people’ formed a united front against the bourgeois culture and ‘decadence’, and a new...
The few Icelandic women writers to appear around the turn of the twentieth century travel from the countryside to Reykjavík. But it is not...
Gender and Class in Icelandic Women’s Literature of the 1970s
The far too rapid and crude modernisation and urbanisation of Iceland had psychological consequences and caused cultural upheavals. The Icelandic...
The Icelandic author Unnur Benediktsdóttir Bjarklind chose the pseudonym Hulda, which means the subterranean, the hidden. In her early works, a...
The work of collecting material from the oral tradition of nineteenth-century Finland received financial support from the government and resulted...
The Female Pattern in Folk Poetry and Folklore Collection
