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['name author to be checked, svd\n\nNorwegian literature also shows itself to be in the mainstream in that women make a large contribution. It boasts at present not one, but three lady authors [all three were in fact Swedish, PB] of exceptional talent: Ernst Ahlgren, A.Ch. Leffler and Mathilda Roos. (p. 223)\n\nI at least do not know of any lady who could compete with Ernst Ahlgren in this respect, either in Scandinavian literature, not to mention our own, or in that of France and England. Even French women authors, however overconfident and sharp, have not produced a book up to the present which can outstrip the grippingly-real characterisation of the precocious young folk of our time in Modern in any respect. (p. 245)\n\nThis title is probably wrong. In Swedish “Modern” also means “The Mother”, and that is the main character of the book. (p. 247)\n\n(cit. in Broomans 2003; transl. Jo Nesbitt) info S. van Dijk, 1-7-2003']
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