Mrs. Marianne (Fru Marianne) - Victoria Benedictsson

Art. no. 216583999 24 Apr 2025

Fru Marianne (1887; Mrs. Marianne) is a novel by Victoria Benedictsson that depicts the development of a young woman from a spoiled city girl to a responsible farmer's wife in the Scanian countryside.

In Fru Marianne, we meet Marianne, a romantically inclined and spoiled bourgeois girl who marries farmer Börje and moves to the countryside. The new life as a farmer's wife proves to be challenging, and the reality differs markedly from the images she has created through reading novels. Throughout the novel, we follow Marianne's personal development and the insights she gains about the demands of love and the reality of marriage. Benedictsson also sheds light on the social expectations placed on women during this time and contributes nuances to the ongoing debate about marriage.