Victoria Benedictsson published Money, her first novel, in 1885.
Set in rural southern Sweden where the author lived, it follows the
fortunes of Selma Berg, a girl whose fate has much in common with
that of Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora. The gifted young Selma is
forced to give up her dreams of going to art school when her uncle
persuades her to marry, at the age of sixteen, a rich older squire.
Profoundly shocked by her wedding night and by the mercenary nature
of the marriage transaction, she finds herself trapped in a life of
idle luxury. She finds solace in her friendship with her cousin and
old sparring partner Richard; but as their mutual regard threatens
to blossom into passion, she draws back from committing adultery
and from the force of her own sexuality. The naturalism and
implicit feminism of Money place it firmly within the radical
literary movement of the 1880s known as Scandinavia's Modern
Breakthrough. Benedictsson became briefly a member of that
movement, but her difficult personal life and her struggles to
achieve success as a writer led to her suicide only three years
later.
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