The District Governor’s Daughter

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The District Governor’s Daughter

novel by Collett

Also known as: “Amtmandens døttre”

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Camilla Collett
…most famous, Amtmandens døttre (1854–55; The District Governor’s Daughter). In it she attacked the existing inequality of the sexes and the conventional marriage and home based on patriarchal dominion. A less-significant volume of short stories followed, and then Collett published I de lange nœtter (1862; “Through the Long Nights”), in…
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…most famous, Amtmandens døttre (1854–55; The District Governor’s Daughter). In it she attacked the existing inequality of the sexes and the conventional marriage and home based on patriarchal dominion. A less-significant volume of short stories followed, and then Collett published I de lange nœtter (1862; “Through the Long Nights”), in…
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Norwegian literature
The 19th century
Camilla Collett’s Amtmandens døttre (1855; The District Governor’s Daughters) examined the place of women in Norwegian society and started a trend that resulted, in the 1870s and ’80s, in the realistic “problem” literature of Ibsen and Bjørnson. By the 1870s Ibsen’s drama was finding an international audience,…
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Camilla Collett’s Amtmandens døttre (1855; The District Governor’s Daughters) examined the place of women in Norwegian society and started a trend that resulted, in the 1870s and ’80s, in the realistic “problem” literature of Ibsen and Bjørnson. By the 1870s Ibsen’s drama was finding an international audience,…
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