Ida Elisabeth
Undset, Sigrid: Ida ElisabethIda 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.
On several levels, this novel covers conflicts and tensions that parallel features 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.
First published: 1932
Sigrid Undset: Biography and bibliography
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| Language | Foreign publisher |
|---|---|
| American English | Alfred A. Knopf , New York |
| Czech | Vysehrad |
| Danish | Jespersen og Pio, Copenhagen |
| Estonian | Eesti Raamat, Tallinn |
| French | Editions de la Paix, Paris |
| German | Rütten & Loening |
| Spanish | Palabra |
