The Homes of the New World, Impressions of America
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1853.
First American Edition. Hardcover. 560. Two volumes in original cloth bindings, pp. xii, 651; 654. Spined sunned but legible, with slight fraying to cloth; corners rubbed, light scattered foxing. Bremer (1801-1865) was a Swedish writer and champion of women's rights. Her domestic novels were very popular both at home and abroad and earned her the sobriquet "the Swedish Jane Austen." In 1849, Bremer visited the United States, where she was welcomed in New England as a kindred spirit for her antislavery sentiments. There she met with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, among others. She went on to visit Shaker and Quaker communities in the mid-Atlantic, to view the conditions of slaves in the South, and to tour Scandinavian communities in the Midwest. Sabin 7713, Howes B-745.
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