The Language Debate in Finland
Women writers of the so-called primitivist movement write about lawless passion. The female characters of their novels often pay with their lives...
Four women poets made their mark on literary Sweden on the threshold of the twentieth century. Jane Gernandt-Claine's writing, which consisted of...
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...
Sweden was the first among the Nordic countries to allow women access to a university education. Female students ostensibly lived under the same...
Ragnhild Jølsen’s life and writing is marked by the tension between her rural home village and the bohemian milieu in the capital city, between...
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...
Author and journalist Elin Wägner was a central character in the struggle for women's suffrage in Sweden, and she was committed to pacifism. She...
Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf achieved her international breakthrough when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. At this point, she was...
The deaf seamstress Maria Sandel, was a feminist, an active Social Democrat, and a favourite among Ellen Key’s circle. She has been referred to as...
In 1909, the battle for women's suffrage is raging. From London Elin Wägner covered “the greatest movement the world has ever seen”, the Fourth...
