Excerpt from The Victoria Magazine, Vol. 7: May-October, 1866 Fanwu bremer, whose death - for a person of her short-lived pro fession - at a ripe old age, has recently been announced, was born at Abo, in Finland, in 1802, at which place her father carried on business as a merchant. After his removal from Abo, her father settled in Skane, the south-western province of Sweden. Frederika received her educa tion in Stockholm, and afterwards lived in, norway, . With her friend the Countess Sonnerhjelm. She entered the field of authorship in 1835, and only after having acquired a European and extra-european reputa tion as a romance writer and depicter of family life, did she seek to replenish her stock of ideas, and open up fresh sources of moral and intellectual life, by foreign travel. This, though her main, was not her only impulse. The anam mz'rabilir of revolution, 1848, was succeeded by the year of reactions and the discontented spirits of the old world, as well as those whose material prospects in life had been compromised by the stagnation of trade, which was a consequence of the political unrest, emigrated in vast numbers to the new world. Miss Bremer, who was linked with the conservative side of European life, by her strong and orthodox, yet liberal piety, had also some affinity with the revolutionary party, through her socialist tendencies. She was, in politics and morals, a member of that then active, but now almost extinct party, called the Christian Socialists. There mingled, then, with her other impulses for travel, that feeling of disappointment in Europe, and hope in America, which was widely prevalent in 1849, and which determined the direction of the wanderer's footsteps. On her way to the United States, she made a tour of a few weeks' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.