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…who aids his bankrupt family; Svend Dyrings huus (1837; “Sven Dyring’s House”), about the woman protagonist’s failed battle to express her eroticism in a repressive society; and Kong Renés datter (1845; King René’s Daughter), based on Provençal folklore. He was also a prolific writer of many kinds of verse. Unfortunately…
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