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Helena Forsas-Scott. Swedish Women's Writing 1850-1995. Women in Context. London: Athlone Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 333.

The Women in Context series edited by Janet Garton sets out to place often-marginalized women's writing firmly within the cultural, political, and intellectual contexts of various national literatures. It represents a positive step away from both traditional and revisionist literary histories which have tended to place artificial boundaries between these sphe...