Considered the first Norwegian feminist novel, Collett's mid-19th-century work here receives its first English edition. Shifting perspective among various ...

Edle, a Norwegian woman looks back on her college days, her relationships with Bente and Gro, fellow students, and her inability to accept her lesbianism. ...

One night, a woman accompanies a stranger home, stays to tell her life story, and leaves. Poverty, abortion, infidelity, cruelty, and rejection define ...

First published in 1926, ALBERTA AND JACOB is a partly autobiographical depiction of a young woman's rebellion against the narrow values and repressed ...

Under Observation, by nineteenth-century author Amalie Skram consists of two controversial novellas, (Professor Hieronimus and St. Jørgen's) by ...

Initially refused by the author's scandalized publisher, Constance Ring is now considered a classic of Scandinavian and women's literature, a passionate ...

This novel tells the story of the misalliance between Luice, a vivacious and beautiful dancing girl from Tivoli, and Theodor Gerner, a respectable lawyer ...

When Jenny was published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral "this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would ...