Ida Elisabeth, by Sigrid Undset

Posted on June 15, 2008
Filed Under Classical novel, Norwegian Writer, World literature |

(Oslo : Aschehoug, 1932, New York : Knopf, 1933.) Ida Elisabeth marries Frithjof, her teenage sweetheart. They get four children together, but only two of them live to grow up. Soon Ida Elisabeth discovers that she has married a real shirker of a man.

When Frithjof embarks on an affair with another woman, Ida Elisabeth chooses to live alone with her children. She provides for herself by becoming a seamstress, and her new life as a working woman entails wholly new qualities.

In a number of ways, this novel deals with conflicts and tensions that parallel aspects of Sigrid Undset’s own life. Ida Elisabeth is one of Undset’s great contemporary novels about women’s conditions and the difficult relationship between the sexes.

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