A Frog in the Fjord
A Frog in the Fjord

Author: Lorelou Desjardins

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9788230349199

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An insightful and humorous account of the author's first year in Norway as a foreigner. From Easter to summer holidays and Christmas, it dives deeply into Norwegian culture, language and people.

Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway

Author: Kathryn Walchester

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1783083670

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‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norway and considers the ways in which women travellers depicted their travels to the region. Tracing the motivations of various groups of women travellers, such as sportswomen, tourists and aristocrats, this book argues that in their writing, Norway forms a counterpoint to Victorian Britain: a place of freedom and possibility.

Women, Travel Writing, and Truth
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth

Author: Clare Broome Saunders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-17

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1317690257

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The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of these elements, questions of veracity and authenticity inevitably arise. Women, Travel, and Truth is a collection of twelve essays that explore the manifold ways in which travel and truth interact in women's travel writing. Essays range in date from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in the eighteenth century to Jamaica Kincaid in the twenty-first, across such regions as India, Italy, Norway, Siberia, Austria, the Orient, the Caribbean, China and Mexico. Topics explored include blurred distinctions of fiction and non-fiction; travel writing and politics; subjectivity; displacement, and exile. Students and academics with interests in literary studies, history, geography, history of art, and modern languages will find this book an important reference.

Norwegian American Women
Norwegian American Women

Author: Betty A. Bergland

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0873518330

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Explores the vital role of women in the creation of Norwegian American communities--from farm to factory and as caregivers, educators, and writers.

Propertied Women’s Economic Agency in Norway c.1400-1550
Propertied Women’s Economic Agency in Norway c.1400-1550

Author: Susann Anett Pedersen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 900454786X

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In this first comprehensive study of women as economic actors in medieval Norway, Susann Anett Pedersen analyses the economic agency of unmarried heiresses, wives and widows c.1400-1550. Drawing on sources such as sales contracts and private letter correspondence, the book investigates elite women’s formal and informal roles in decision making processes and their ability to make independent economic choices. In particular, the book stresses the importance of looking beyond the legal regulation of women’s economic activities and rather analyses women’s own actions, in order to better grasp the complexity of their economic agency.