Twelve Months with Fredrika Bremer in Sweden.

HOWITT, Margaret. [Fredrika Bremer].

$2,500.00

Item Number: 124150

London: Jackson, Walford, and Hodder, 1866.

First edition of Howitt’s work on the twelve months she spent with close friend and writer Fredrika Bremer. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine and front panel, tipped in tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Bremer with an inscription from her to Howitt in facsimile. In very good condition. Scarce with only one other copy traced at auction. Bookplate.

Swedish writer and feminist reformer Fredrika Bremer's Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s, so much so that she was commonly referred to as the Swedish Jane Austen. A close friend of Bremer's, English poet Mary Howitt, translated several of her works into English, in addition to several tales by Hans Christian Andersen.