| Notes |
['via T. Streng: Geschapen om te scheppen? (1997), p.61, p.110\r\n\r\nJournalist D-D (Vaderlandse Letteroefeningen 1857 I Boekbeschouwing, p. 693-696) comments on Bremer: “zij is een aardige denkster, maar geheel eene vrouwelijke denkster. Zij is rijk aan treffende opmerkingen en lieve idéën, maar ze kan die beter opwerpen, dan uitwerken.”\r\nmd\r\n\r\nFor DWW19\r\n- FB\'s reputation is declining\r\n- knowledgeable about everyday life and Swedish countryside\r\n- intuition for understanding humane heart\r\n- but composing a novel: not her cup of tea (not enough coherence)\r\n- likes philosophy, but not gifted as such\r\n\r\n- this novel + a complaint about women\'s destiny in modern, especially Swedish, society\r\n- unclear what the author wants\r\n- heroine requires better education and more liberty for women - but without explaining what kind of education and what for this liberty\r\n- ideas too idealistic, not practical enough (in spite of FB\'s herself being a director of such an institution)\r\n- Hertha supposed to be the "model-woman", but in fact is too sentimental and fantastic - the other female characters do not prove "women\'s vocation" either\r\n- plot not coherent enough; objections to the other (M and F) characters\r\n\r\n- however: nice reading, pure morality\r\n- many women readers who find their "Nordic sister" "so interesting"\r\nsvdmar11']
|