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He was born in Stockholm, Nov. 28, 1793. He was the son of the army paymaster Karl Gustav Almqvist (1768–1846).
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Drottningens juvelsmycke is a classic Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almquist. It was the first original historical novel to be written in Sweden, and it features one of Swedish literature's most enduringly popular characters, the intersex Tintomara. The novel is set in 1792 and weaves the story of the beautiful but sexless androgyne Tintomara around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, commonly nicknamed 'The Theatre King', on the stage of Stockholm's Royal Swedish Opera at a masked ball in 1792.
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During a steamboat trip between Stockholm and Lidköping, a sergeant named Albert falls in love with the glazier's daughter Sara Videbeck. But Sara insists that they live in an egalitarian marriage without a formal marriage ceremony and without shared property (today known as living apart together). Sara asks at the end of the book: Går allt detta an, Albert? (Is all this acceptable, Albert?) The answer is: Det går an (It is acceptable). The novel is primarily an attack on lifelong marriage as an institution and the inability of women to become financially independent. The book's social tendency aroused lively debate and "det-går-an literature" became a concept. One consequence however was that Almqvist was forced out of his post as rector at the New Elementary School, Stockholm.
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composer social critic traveller early feminist poet
He was born in Stockholm, Nov. 28, 1793. He was the son of the army paymaster Karl Gustav Almqvist (1768–1846).
He became a student at Upsala, where his father was professor of theology, in 1808, and took his degree in 1815.
He began life under highly favour-able auspices; but becoming tired of a university career, in 1823 he threw up the position he held in the capital to lead a colony of friends to the wilds of Wermland.
So excellent was his style, that in this respect he has been con-sidered the first of Swedish writers.
His life was as varied as his work.
This occurred in 1851.
For many years no more was heard of him; but it is now known that he went over to America and settled in St Louis.
During a journey through Texas he was robbed of all his manuscripts, among which are believed to have been several unprinted novels.
The American adventures of Almqvist remain exceedingly obscure, and some of the most remarkable have been proved to be fabulous.
In 1865 he returned to Europe, and his strange and sinister existence came to a close at Bremen on the 26th of September 1866.
It is by his romances, undoubtedly the best in Swedish, that his literary fame will mainly be supported; but his singular history will always point him out as a remarkable figure even when his works are no longer read.
He was another Eugene Aram, but of greater genius, and so far more successful that he escaped the judicial penalty of his crimes.
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His books caused the church and state to condemn him and call him a dangerous revolutionary.
More and more vehemently he espoused the cause of socialism in his brilliant novels and pamphlets;
He wrote many books and poems. Some dealt with his radical views on society and politics; in his novel Drottningens juvelsmycke, his main character, Tintomara, is neither male nor female, and arouses both men and women to fall in love, and in his novel Det går an (It is acceptable), a woman lives with a man without being married to him.
He entered the civil service, but after a few years he married a farmer's daughter and settled on a farm in the province of Värmland.
The story itself is simple enough: a middle-class couple, she a self-supporting girl and he a petty officer, meet on a steamer, and fall in love; they do not wish to marry, but decide to live together nevertheless.