Finnish writer Minna Canth became a single mother, businesswoman, and author all at once. Instead of being satisfied with the simple and retired...
The Language Debate in Finland
Four women poets made their mark on literary Sweden on the threshold of the twentieth century. Jane Gernandt-Claine's writing, which consisted of...
A number of social and ideological features became prevalent in the European transition from eighteenth to nineteenth century – the establishment...
A man writes when he wishes and is inspired to do so, a woman, at least one with children and a household, when she can and has time, happy and...
The authors of ecclesiastical history tend to be theologians and church leaders. Traditionally speaking, they are usually men, and women play a...
Sweden was the first among the Nordic countries to allow women access to a university education. Female students ostensibly lived under the same...
Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf achieved her international breakthrough when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909. At this point, she was...
People’s attitude towards life is the essential thing in Minda Ramm's oeuvre. Empathy, art, and philosophical wisdom can teach them how to put up...
“My entire being has almost been shattered by the overwhelming power of love.” The power of love in this 11 November 1918 diary entry by Finnish...
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...
After she liberates herself from the inspiration from Herman Bang and from her husband’s ‘guardianship’, the author Karin Michaëlis finds the...
