Ellen Key | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis & critique of Ellen Key.

Ellen Key | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 5 pages of analysis & critique of Ellen Key.
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SOURCE: A review of Love and Marriage, in The New York Times Book Review, March 26, 1911, pp. 165, 171.

In the following review, the anonymous author admires Key's straightforward approach to human emotion and sexuality in Love and Marriage.

A Swede who had his own part in the period of "storm and stress" in his native land, and has since in the course of cosmopolitan wanderings acquired an almost Stevensonian aptness in the use of English, declared of Ellen Key, the pioneer of the insurrection of women in Sweden, that she dealt in "winged words," and as a lecturer fairly flung well-aimed facts at her hearers. Something of the quality of style so described remains even in the translation of a part of Miss Key's notable work Lifslinjer, which is now, after a lapse of eight years since the appearance of the original, published here with the title Love and Marriage...

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