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Bjørnson wrote several works where strong female characters were central. Irene Engelstad believe that Bjornson has received too little credit for his ability to immerse themselves in women's lives and experiences.
Bjørnson. (Photo: Beer Wilse. Owner: National Library) - Bjornson must have had a really great fascination for women to immerse themselves in women's lives and experiences in the way he actually does, says Irene Engelstad.
Engelstad apple bottoms says that Bjornson is the male author from 1880 - and 1890's with most women protagonists, and often also a woman's name in the title of their books.
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- What I was concerned with this book is that he really fail to describe the seduced woman. He gives her a place and a voice and dignity that I was very moved by said Engelstad.
Several of Bjørnson's books have strong female characters. The Fisher Girl, a novel from 1868, he writes about Petra. She has a calling, she wants to be an actor. The novel is about her tortuous path to becoming an artist, and her triumph on stage to finish.
In 1877, the author of the novel Magnhild, which is about a woman who stands. It was read as a defense of women's right to divorce. The book meant a lot to Amalie Skram, and for her courage to seek divorce, according Engelstad.
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- She loves and can not contradict her husband, but seeing that he exerts a patriarchal power that destroys kids. Bjornson even did note in a note at the end of the piece that he had studied hysteria at the doctor Charcot in France, says Iversen. Important for the women's movement
Bjørnson wrote about listening to women, and it also led to his changed views on the question of what it took to create the liberation of women, according to Iversen. One of Bjørnson's most famous female characters are Linne in the drama A glove from 1883.
She throws a glove in the face of his fiancee in protest against his sexual past, which he had kept her unaware. The piece was read as an attack on men's sexual double standards and created uproar and great debate in the Nordic countries.
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