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Fredrika Bremer

Died in 1865

Fredrika Bremer, born on 17 August 1801 in Åbo, in Finland, the second daughter of a rich family of merchants, received a careful education but, according to her own recollections, without affection. To help her poor, she published anonymously, from 1828, sketches of daily life that made her famous as far as Great Britain and America, and obtained from the king, in 1840, to be declared of age. She spent two years in the United States, from 1849 to 1851, travelled from 1856 to 1861 in Europe and the Holy Land, and died at Årsta castle on 31 December 1865.

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