In Edith Øberg's literary novels, women’s relationships with each other increasingly come to the fore as men recede into the background. Øberg is...
Women writers of the so-called primitivist movement write about lawless passion. The female characters of their novels often pay with their lives...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
Four women poets made their mark on literary Sweden on the threshold of the twentieth century. Jane Gernandt-Claine's writing, which consisted of...
Much of the literature written by women after World War I bespoke a reaction to a new trend in sexual morality. The new age, the new woman, and...
The Finnish author Hagar Olsson’s debut from 1916 was brought out the same year as Edith Södergran’s first poetry collection....
Aase Hansen and Ellen Raae belonged to a generation of women for whom citizenship had been won, but the victory did not feel like a personal...
On Literary Sexual Politics in the 1930s
Sweden was the first among the Nordic countries to allow women access to a university education. Female students ostensibly lived under the same...
In 1944, fifteen years after Arnold Norlind’s death, his wife, the author and historian of religion Emilia Fogelklou wrote a biography of him. She...
When Sweden introduced universal suffrage in the 1920s, a number of established authors used the autobiographical genre to tell their story and...
The writing of Regine Normann (1867-1939) lent a new dimension to the Norwegian region of Nordland. She fused folklore with authentic depictions...
