Finnish-born Swedish writer and feminist reformer (1801-1865), whose Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden. Attractive engraving of Fredrika Bremer, 8.5 x 12.75, signed neatly below her portrait in ink. In fine condition.
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