Judge Frank reads Bentham aloud while his wife Elise yawns and summons the old servant Brigitta; their house is full of daughters, sons, cousins, suitors and guests. Fredrika Bremer follows this Swedish family through domestic disputes, courtships, misfortunes and the small heroisms of everyday life in the early nineteenth century.
The domestic novel that made Sweden’s foremost woman writer famous across Europe and America. Download the free EPUB.