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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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Details
- 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 Drawing on a wealth of historical documents, Nan Bentzen Skille's lively narrative presents an intimate portrait of the Nobel Prize winner's intense emotional life and creative endeavors, with Bjerkebæk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
- Subjects
- 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
- textstill 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