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BREMER, FREDRIKA.

America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer. Selected and Edited by Adolph B. Benson.

Place and Imprint: New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1924.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Edges slightly rubbed; very good copy.
Book ID: 29079

Physical Description

8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g. Frontis portrait and one plate.

Comments

In 1849, Swedish novelist and writer Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) came to North America for a two-year tour of the United States and Cuba, which she documented in letters to her sister, Agatha and published as The Homes of the New World. It was Bremer’s first travel book (of several) and in great detail reports on her wide-ranging itinerary from New England, through the South, to Cuba and back again. The original letters are here edited by Adolph B. Benson, with a fine introduction about Bremer and her American tour.

Price: $40.00