. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ^ I y ./t-ts-^^i c FREDERIKA BREMER, FREDERIKA BREMER,the bouselaold novelist of Swed-en, was born in Tuorla Manor-house,near Abo, in Finland, on the 17th ofAugust, 1801. Her father, Carl Frede-ric Bremer, descended from an ancientGerman noble family, was the son ofan enterprising Swede, who had set-tled in Finland and accumulated con-siderable wealth by his iron worksand factories. His son, Carl, also wasan Iron-Master, and held valuableestates in the country. Foreseeing thepolitical difficulties which led to
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. ^ I y ./t-ts-^^i c FREDERIKA BREMER, FREDERIKA BREMER,the bouselaold novelist of Swed-en, was born in Tuorla Manor-house,near Abo, in Finland, on the 17th ofAugust, 1801. Her father, Carl Frede-ric Bremer, descended from an ancientGerman noble family, was the son ofan enterprising Swede, who had set-tled in Finland and accumulated con-siderable wealth by his iron worksand factories. His son, Carl, also wasan Iron-Master, and held valuableestates in the country. Foreseeing thepolitical difficulties which led to itsseparation from Sweden, he removedwith his family, in 1804, to Stock-holm, which he made their winter resi-dence, passing the summers at his es-tate of Arsta, which he was a large palace-like edifice,built two hundred years before, in theperiod of the thirty years war, a hugerambling place fitted to have its ro-mantic influence on the imagination ofits youthful inmates. The life which the children of thewealthy capitalist led, judged by thestandard of our own d
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