Birgitta Holm. Victoria Benedictsson.(Book review)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Moberg, Verne | Copyright information

Birgitta Holm. Victoria Benedictsson. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 2007. Pp 240.

Birgitta Holm may be the best friend that Swedish women's literature ever had, or at least one of the best scholar friends that Victoria Benedictsson ever had. Clearly, this new book on "Sweden's George Eliot" is a major work. Anyone interested in learning about this important ninteenth-century writer can save years of library legwork by going to this volume first; and those who are already...

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