Collett, Camilla

Collett, Camilla

▪ Norwegian author
in full  Jacobine Camilla Collett , née  Wergeland  
born January 23, 1813, Kristiansand, Norway
died March 6, 1895, Kristiania [now Oslo]

      novelist and passionate advocate of women's rights; she wrote the first Norwegian novel dealing critically with the position of women. Its immense influence on later writers—especially Henrik Ibsen (Ibsen, Henrik), Jonas Lie (Lie, Jonas), and Alexander Kielland (Kielland, Alexander Lange)—is reflected in the late 19th century, when women's emancipation became a burning topic of the day.

      The sister of Norway's beloved national poet Henrik Wergeland (Wergeland, Henrik Arnold), Camilla Wergeland was in love as a young woman with her father's and brother's greatest rival, J.S. Welhaven (Welhaven, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer), but he either did not return her feelings or was inhibited by their society's moral expectations from expressing his sentiments, and she later married Peter Jonas Collett—a friend of Welhaven and also a critic of her brother—who strongly encouraged her writing. Not until after his death and the death of her parents and brother did she write the novel for which she is most famous, Amtmandens døttre (1854–55; The District Governor's Daughter). In it she attacked the existing inequality of the sexes and the conventional marriage and home based on patriarchal dominion. A less-significant volume of short stories followed, and then Collett published I de lange nœtter (1862; “Through the Long Nights”), in which she artistically arranges reminiscences of her childhood and youth. After that she dedicated the rest of her works directly to the social and emotional emancipation of women.

      While the older Camilla Collett pioneered the struggle for women's rights in Norway, the young Camilla Wergeland deserves to be remembered as one of her country's foremost authors of memoir literature, as evidenced by the four published volumes of Dagbøker og breve (1926–33; “Diaries and Letters”).

Poul Houe
 

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