Location: Vår Frelsers Gravlund / Cemetery of Our Saviour, Oslo, Norway
Photo taken by: Chris Nyborg
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Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature.
Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as being one of the first contributors to realism in Norwegian literature.
Her most famous work is her only novel, Amtmandens Døtre / The District Governor's Daughters which was published anonymously in two separate parts in 1854 and 1855. The book is considered one of the first political and social realism novels in Norway and deals with the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchal society.
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