o which she and her sisters were subjected was unusually
strict; Fredrika's health began to give way; and in 1821 the family set
out for the south of France. They travelled slowly by way of Germany and
Switzerland, and returned by Paris and the Netherlands. It was shortly
after this time that Miss Bremer became acquainted with Schiller's
works, which made a very deep impression on her. She had begun to write
verses from the age of eight, and in 1828 she succeeded in finding a
publisher for the first volume of her _Teckningar ur hvardagslifvet_
(1828), which at once attracted attention. The second volume (1831),
containing one of her best tales, _Familjen H._, gave decisive evidence
that a real novelist had been found in Sweden. The Swedish Academy
awarded her their smaller gold medal, and she increased her reputation
by _Presidentens dottrar_ (1834), _Grannarne_ (1837) and others. Her
father had died in 1830, and her life was thereafter regulated in
accordance with her own wishes and tastes. She lived for some years in
Norway with a friend, after whose death she travelled in the autumn of
1849 to America, and after spending nearly two years there returned
through England. The admirable translations (1846, &c.) of her works by
Mary Howitt, which had been received with even greater eagerness in
America and England than in Sweden, secured for her a warm and kindly
reception. Her impressions of America, _Hemmen i nya verlden_, were
published in 1853-1854, and at once translated into English. After her
return Miss Bremer devoted herself to her scheme for the advancement and
emancipation of women. Her views on these questions were expounded in
her later novels--_Hertha_ (1856) and _Far och dotter_ (1858). Miss
Bremer organized a society of ladies in Stockholm for the purpose of
visiting the prisons, and during the cholera started a society, the
object of which was the care of children left orphans by the epidemic.
She devoted herself to other philanthropic and social schemes, and
gradually abandoned her earlier simple and charming type of story for
novels directed to the furtherance of her views. In these she was less
successful. In 1856 she again travelled, and spent five years on the
continent and in Palestine. Her reminiscences of these countries have
all been translated into English. On her return she settled at Arsta,
where, with the exception of a visit to Germany, she spent the remaining
years of her life. She died on th