A number of Swedish female poets in the 1980s were accused of writing impenetrably, but they become the central figures of the period. Ann...
Finnish female authors were active participants in the 1930s discussion of birth control and abortion that gathered momentum during the early...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
Many contemporary women writers appear caught up in a paradox of form: on the one hand, women in contemporary literature create literary...
The lustre of the Victorian feminine ideal wore off. Owing to the new civil rights that had been accorded to women, along with their growing...
With the Modern Breakthrough in the Nordic region in the 1880s, feverish female activity could be perceived everywhere. Women joined together in...
It was a novel written by a woman, Mathilde Fibiger’s Clara Raphael. Tolv Breve (Clara Raphael. Twelve Letters), that provoked the debate...
Emergence of a Female Public Arena in Norway
The women authors of the late nineteenth century wrote in league with and as challenge to the women’s movement. The most self-assured of the women...
The number and quality of treatises discussing women’s talents or lack there of was high sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The works were...
Professor J. S. Sneedorff highlighted the Danish translation of German author Margaretha Klopstock's Briefe von Verstorbenen an Lebendige...
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter drove a wedge into patriarchal male society. She is known as the first female hymn writer in Denmark-Norway to assume a...