Female writers of the Romantic movement did not have the academic training in literary tradition enjoyed by the majority of their male colleagues...
The post-1814 world was a different place. The dual realm Denmark-Norway was dissolved, and Norway entered a union with Sweden. Women’s diaries...
The ideal of womanhood, as described in the eighteenth-century moral tales and bourgeois stage comedies, was not hushed and inarticulate. But it...
In the seventeenth century, les précieuses formed their own salons in protest against the vulgarity of the court of Henri IV. These...
Madame de Sévigné turned the epistolary genre into a women’s genre, not in the sense that it was mostly populated by women, but because the women...
Professor J. S. Sneedorff highlighted the Danish translation of German author Margaretha Klopstock's Briefe von Verstorbenen an Lebendige...
The eighteenth century can exhibit many pictures of women who, directly and in particular indirectly, are occupied with their own literary...
On Danish Eighteenth-Century Periodicals and Libraries
The view taken by the Christian Church of women who wrote on holy matters, evangelised, preached, prophesised or in other ways acted as God’s...
The Modern Breakthrough in Sweden
Whereas Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical Romanticist in her writing as well as in her life, the Nordic female authors found it more difficult to...