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Paris in the 1880s. Louise Strandberg has fallen ill visiting her
bohemian artist friends. An almost-famous French painter calls
round and, somehow inevitably, she falls heavily under his spell. A
year later, having run herself deep into debt on his account
despite his coolness towards her, she - somehow also inevitably -
kills herself. author's own life. Victoria Benedictsson killed
herself at the end of a long, unrequited affair. She is said to be
the model for two of the most famous suicides in drama: in Miss
Julie (published the year of her death) and Hedda Gabler, published
two years later. remarkably fresh and fascinating take on the
19th-century obsession with the doomed love affair, which includes
La Dame aux Camelias and Therese Raquin.
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Money (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Victoria Benedictsson; Translated by Sarah Death; Afterword by Sarah Death
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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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