By Joy K. Lintelman
Near the tip of her lifestyles, Mina Anderson penned a full of life memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the crucial girl personality of his liked emigrant novels, a lady who always yearns for her fatherland. yet Mina's tale was once relatively different.
Showcasing her formerly untranslated memoir, i'm going To the USA strains Mina's journey around the Atlantic to Wisconsin after which the dual towns, the place she labored as a household servant, and her flow to rural Mille Lacs County, the place she and her husband labored a farm, raised seven young children, and contributed to rural Swedish group life.
Mina herself writes approximately how thankful she used to be for the chance to be in the USA, the place the pay was once higher, category modifications have been unconfining, and children—girls included—had the opportunity for a very good schooling. In her personal phrases, "I have by no means regretted that I left Sweden. i've got had it larger here."
Author pleasure Lintelman drastically expands upon Mina's memoir, detailing the social, cultural, and fiscal realities skilled via numerous Swedish girls of her station. Lintelman bargains readers either an intimate portrait of Mina Anderson and a window into the lives of the approximately 250,000 younger, unmarried Swedish ladies who immigrated to the United States from 1881 to 1920 and whose braveness, labor, and pragmatism embrace the yankee dream.
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