Wägner, Elin
Elin Wägner (ā´lĬn vĕg´nĕr), 1882–1949, Swedish novelist. Wägner was a leading feminist of her day. In early works such as Pennskaftet [the penholder] (1910), she deals with the social, economic, and political questions confronting self-supporting urban women. She also founded and edited a feminist weekly and later, in two semiautobiographical novels, recorded the history of the Swedish women's movement in terms of her own experience. Her later works, including her best-known novel, Åsa-Hanna (1918), and the family saga Silverforsen [the silver rapids] (1924), concentrate more heavily on religious and moral questions. In Alarm Clock (1941), she argued for radical change from a doomed patriarchy.
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BORN: 1939, Sheffield, England
NATIONALITY: English
GENRE: Fiction
MAJOR WORKS:
The Waterfall (1969)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
The Re… Womens Studies , In the United States women's studies became a distinct scholarly discipline as an outgrowth of the "second wave" of feminism in the 1960s. While wome… Womens Rights , Women's Rights Movement
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