BREMER, br:Vmer, FREDRI KA ( 1801 -65) . A Swedish novelist, born near Abo, Finland. Her father was an iron-founder, wealthy, and some what stern, her mother severe and impatient. the child affectionate, passionate. and restless, mis understood and hindered in development. Iler first writing was youthful poetry in French, pro duced when she was eight years old. Nursery dramas and a journal followed, with foreign travel that left her "conscious of being born with powerful wings. but conscious of their be ing clipped." She turned to works of charity, and to increase her means for these, pub lished a series of romances under the general title, Sketches of Erery-Day Life (1828-48). The first of these was „Axel and :Mina. (1828). A second volume, The il. Family (1829-30), was a sensational success, and sub sequent volumes won her an international public.
She passed two years (1819-51) in America. Iler early novels excel in descriptions of every-day middle-class life. They have the charm of nn affected simplicity and quiet humor. Noteworthy among them are: „Ise/ and .Imut (1828) ; The President's Daughtcrs ( 1834 ) i ( 1835) The Veiyh ( 1837 ) Thr Home (1839). Later novels disclose the reformer, advocating philan thropy, religion, and especially the equal rights of women. Of these, flertha (1857) and Syskon lif are the best. Iler verse is unimportant. Of her books of travel, Bows in the New World (1853) contains her impressions of America. She died at Arsta December 31, 1865. An Eng lish life of :Miss Bremer, with unpublished writ ings, appeared in 1803. There are good English translations of the earlier novels, by Mary Ilowit t.