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Bremer was a Swedish novelist, and these letters described American life, as she traveled throughout the country. This passage is from the preface, written by a publisher of a later edition: “One day in the early fifties a New York publisher put on the market a series of letters bearing the double title, Homes of the New World; Impressions of America. It was a voluminous work of about thirteen hundred octavo pages, yet one that required five printings within a month. On opening the books one found revealed a curiously wide range of reading matter. Here was a conversation with Emerson, there a criticism of a girls’ school; here was an account of a negro camp-meeting, and there of a Norwegian settlement in Wisconsin. Amos Bronson Alcott was being advised to drink milk instead of water to make his Transcendentalism less foggy, or the author was watching the women smoke on a Mississippi boat. A description of an Indian chief led to a comparison of his wigwam with the Laplander’s hut or of the heathen Chippewas with the Christianized Choctaws…”
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America of the fifties: letters of Fredrika Bremer
1970, American-Scandinavian Foundation
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America of the fifties: letters of Fredrika Bremer
1924, The American-Scandinavian foundation, [etc., etc.]
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America of the fifties: letters, selected and edited by Adolph B. Benson.
1924, American-Scandinavian Foundation
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Selections from the author's The homes of the New World; impressions of America, translated by Mary Howitt, published in 2 vols., New York, 1853.
Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources,inc., 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 16336)
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