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Inside the gate : Sigrid Undset's life at Bjerkebæk

Title
Inside the gate : Sigrid Undset's life at Bjerkebæk / Nan Bentzen Skille ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Author
Skille, Nan Bentzen
Publication
  • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
  • ©2009

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Additional Authors
Nunnally, Tiina, 1952-
Description
286 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Inside the Gate offers readers a rare glimpse into Sigrid Undset's life at her home, Bjerkebæk now a museum and national landmark in Lillehammer, Norway. Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, Nan Bentzen Skille's lively narrative presents an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize winner's intense emotional life and creative endeavors, with Bjerkebæk at the center of it all"--
Uniform Title
Innenfor gjerdet. English
Alternative Title
  • Innenfor gjerdet.
  • Sigrid Undset's life at Bjerkebæk
Subject
  • Undset, Sigrid, 1882-1949
  • Bjerkebæk (Lillehammer, Norway)
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, Norwegian > 20th century > Biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  • Authors, Norwegian
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword -- Lillehammer Station -- Disembark on the right -- Sigrid Undset makes herself a home -- With an office in "Norway's most beautiful home" -- The "guesthouse" that became the "priest's house" -- The garden -- "the third loveliest" in the world -- The children at Bjerkebæk -- Mathea Mortenstuen -- Miniature theaters and other sorts of drama -- The Nobel Prize comes to Lillehammer -- The difficult thirties -- "Fight for all that you hold dear" -- The curtain falls -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Chronology -- Photo credits.
Call Number
JFE 18-5925
ISBN
  • 9781517904968
  • 151790496X
  • 1452957207
  • 9781452957203
LCCN
2017054254
OCLC
1019854672
Author
Skille, Nan Bentzen, author.
Title
Inside the gate : Sigrid Undset's life at Bjerkebæk / Nan Bentzen Skille ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2009
Edition
First University of Minnesota Press edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Nunnally, Tiina, 1952- translator.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-5925
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