Ulrika Eleonora’s court circle was in contact with key figures in the Pietistic reform movement, and was thus a parallel to the spiritual...
The work of collecting material from the oral tradition of nineteenth-century Finland received financial support from the government and resulted...
The number and quality of treatises discussing women’s talents or lack there of was high sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The works were...
Märta Berendes’ story of her life and Christina Regina vom Birchenbaums song “Een Annor Ny wijsa” reflect the language models and interpretive...
Agneta Horns autobiography, which she called “Description of my wretched and much-troubled wanderings” is a ‘memory of lament’ recounting the...
In the history of Swedish literature, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht is usually credited with introducing subjective poetry. She was the first...
Charlotta Dorothea Biehl was the most productive Danish woman writer of the eighteenth century. She repeatedly made effective use of the letter in...
Madame de Sévigné turned the epistolary genre into a women’s genre, not in the sense that it was mostly populated by women, but because the women...
Professor J. S. Sneedorff highlighted the Danish translation of German author Margaretha Klopstock's Briefe von Verstorbenen an Lebendige...
The eighteenth century can exhibit many pictures of women who, directly and in particular indirectly, are occupied with their own literary...
Sweden's first woman writer Sophia Elisabet Brenner’s work was in the form of poems for special occasions. She paid tribute to royalty and people...
The Danish author Anna Margrethe Lasson decided to tackle the novel genre head-on by writing her own prose novel. This resulted in Den...
