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"Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson wrote a lively, intimate memoir, a piece so interesting and informative that renowned Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg used it to shape the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels. But Moberg's archetypical Swedish settler "Kristina" is lonely and depressed, constantly yearning for her homeland." "Mina's story was quite different." "Showcasing this previously untranslated memoir, I Go to America traces Mina's trip across the Atlantic to Wisconsin and then to the Twin Cities, where she worked as a domestic servant. It explores her move to rural Mille Lacs County, where she and her husband worked a farm, raised seven children, and contributed widely to rural Swedish community life through her poetry, fiction, and letters to Swedish American newspapers." "Unlike Moberg's Kristina, Mina herself writes about how grateful she was for the opportunity to be in America, where her pay was better, class differences were unconfining, and children - girls included - had the chance for a good education. In her own words, "I have never regretted that I left Sweden. I have had it better here."" "Author Joy Lintelman greatly expands upon Mina's memoir, detailing the social, cultural, and economic realities experienced by countless Swedish women of her station. Lintelman offers readers both an intimate portrait of Mina Anderson and a window into the lives of nearly 250,000 young, single Swedish women who immigrated to America from 1881 to 1920 and whose courage, hard work, and pragmatism embody the American dream."--Jacket.
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Social aspects, Women immigrants, Emigration and immigration, Swedish American women, Social conditions, Women pioneers, Biography, History, Swedes, united states, Women, united states, biography, Women, united states, social conditions, Europe, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigrationPeople
Minnie Halgren (1867-1955)Places
Middle West, United States, SwedenTimes
20th century, 19th centuryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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I Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson
2012, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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0873518357 9780873518352
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I go to America: Swedish American women and the life of Mina Anderson
2009, Minnesota Historical Society Press
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0873516362 9780873516365
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