Lithography titled „Emilie Flygare-Carlén“From “Litografiskt Allehandra. Album for Svensk Konst”, Sigfrid Flodins Forlag, Stockholm, 1865. Emilie Flygare-Carlén (née Smith; August 8, 1807, Strömstad – February 5, 1892, Stockholm) was a Swedish novelist. Her first novel, Valdemar Klein, was published in 1838. In that and several later novels, such as Rosen på Tistelön (1842; Eng. trans. The Rose of Tistelön, 1842), Pål Värning, Enslingen på Johannisskäret (1846; Eng. trans. The Hermit, 4 vols., 1853), Jungfrutornet, and Ett köpmanshus i skärgården (1859; The Merchant's House on the Cliffs), she wrote about life in the archipelago and the sea, while the stories of novels such as Fosterbröderna, Fideikommisset, Ett år, En nyckfull kvinna, Kamrer Lassman, and Vindskuporna take place in the middle or upper classes.Her novels were collected into 31 volumes (Stockholm, 1869–1875). In 1878, she published an autobiography, Minnen af svenskt författarlif 1840–1860 (Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life). She was translated into Danish, Norwegian, German, Russian, French, English, Italian, Dutch, Hungarian and Czech, and was the most widely read Swedish novelist of her time.Approx. image size 11, 9 x 10, 6/29, 1 x 23 cm.

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