REENSTIERNA [OR REENSTJERNA], MÄRTHA HELENA:
ÅRSTADAGBOKEN. JOURNALER FRÅN ÅREN 1793-1839. 1-3.
Stockholm, Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt, 1946 - 1953.
Large 8vo. 504; 554; 482 pp. + 3 colour frontispieces + 2 folding maps + numerous text illustrations.
¶ First edition. Edited by Sigurd Erixon, Arvid Stålhane, and Sigurd Wallin.
Explanatory notes by Gunnar Broman.
"Märta Helena Reenstierna (1753-1841) kept a diary between 1793 and 1839 ... " / " She lived with her husband, a captain twenty years older than her, in a manor house just outside Stockholm. She gave birth to seven children of whom only one survived to adult age. The family belonged to the Swedish nobility, lived on the revenues of the agriculture and led a simple and rustic life on their estate, where they continually received friends and relatives on visit from Stockholm. Mrs Reenstierna was forty years old when she started to write down her daily annotations. Her living conditions allowed her to organize her time which meant that she was free to read when she wanted to do so. Her sex and her social belonging made her a typical representative of these non-professional readers, who realized that reading could be for pleasure"(Margareta Björkman, HIGH AND LOW. Some Remarks on the Reading Culture of the
Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (www.cf.ac.uk).
Index of names to each volume + general index of names + general index of illustrations.
Volume one, 1793-1812; vol. 2, 1813-1825; vol. 3, 1826-1839.
Etnologiska källskrifter, 4:1-3.Publisher's half red morocco, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt. Volume two, pp. 391-2 repaired in lower margin without loss.
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