Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt (1621–1698)
Autor/a de Jammers Minde
Sobre l'autor
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Obres de Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt
Memoirs of Leonora Christina: Daughter of Christian IV of Denmark: Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at… (2009) 5 exemplars
Hæltinners pryd 1 exemplars
Harmaminning Leonóru Kristínar í Bláturni 1 exemplars
Gyldendals bibliotek, bind 1: Jammersminde 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Countess Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina,
- Altres noms
- Countess Ulfeldt
Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina - Data de naixement
- 1621-07-08
- Data de defunció
- 1698-03-16
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Maribo Cathedral, Maribo, Denmark
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Denmark
- Lloc de naixement
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lloc de defunció
- Maribo Monastery, Denmark
- Llocs de residència
- Copenhagen, Denmark
Stockholm, Sweden
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Professions
- countess
political prisoner
aristocrat
autobiographer - Relacions
- Isabelle comtesse de Paris (descendant)
- Biografia breu
- Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, was born in Copenhagen, a the daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and and Kirstine Munk. his morganatic second wife. In 1636, at age 15, she was married to Count Corfits Ulfeldt, the prime minister of Denmark, who was twice her age, and they had 10 children. In 1651, the count was accused of treason, and Leonora became a fugitive with him. They were arrested and, although her husband escaped, she was imprisoned under the harshest conditions in the Blue Tower for 22 years. She is considered a national cultural heroine for her fate and for her autobiography, Jammers Minde (A Memory of Lament), written secretly during her solitary confinement and first published posthumously in 1869. Leonora also wrote an account of her happy youth, Den Franscke Selvbiografi (The French Autobiography), completed in 1673 and also smuggled out of the Blue Tower.
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So I was browsing Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders page and came across the original Danish version of this, and thought, "Oh cool!" because I used some tiny snippets once, laboriously translated, to try and get a better idea of the layout of the Blue Tower (in which Leonora Christina was imprisoned for twenty years) for the novel I was writing. And then I noticed a link to the English version, which was in smooth-reading (instead of a page at a time read the whole thing and send back notes) and I was all, "!!! There's an English translation! And I get to read it!"
So I started it for the research, and indeed I've now learned huge amounts about the Blue Tower (minor revisions may ensue), but it was awesome in all sorts of other ways too.
The matter-of-factual recounting of the day-to-day absurdities of prison-life, for example. One prisoner got to be so trusted that the tower warder actually left him with the key to the tower. The prison governor discovered this one day and the tower warder just shrugged and said, "Don't worry, he won't go anywhere." And the many minor battles with and victories over the succession of prison governors, tower warders, and especially maids over the years. It turns out that the kind of woman who agrees to live in prison to wait on a lady for money is not often the kind of woman who is socially acceptable enough to have many other options in life.
Also, Leonora Christina is MacGyver. Particularly in the early years she had absolutely nothing, so she gets bits of ribbon from her clothes for the thread, scavenges a pin, is given a broken wooden spoon which she carves into shape with a bit of broken glass and so on and so forth, and next thing you know she's weaving. Her first ink is made by letting soot settle on a metal spoon held over a candle.
Later on she's given an allowance and allowed books and writing materials, and she writes her collections of "Heroines" (mythical, historical and contemporary comingled; she sorted them according to the kind of way in which they were heroical), of which I believe part is still extant. Other of her writings aren't, all: there was apparently a play which would have been delightful to read. The memoirs include a number of hymns she composed, which even in translation aren't half bad.
She's not such a brilliant naturalist -- her observations of the life cycle of fleas are... more bewildering than anything. But no-one's perfect.
In short: full of awesome.
(Warnings: includes some violence on the part of her guards towards animals. Also, alas, near the end includes a short second-hand account of marital rape, about which the writer's opinion is explicitly "That'll teach her to refuse to have sex with her husband." o.O )… (més)
So I started it for the research, and indeed I've now learned huge amounts about the Blue Tower (minor revisions may ensue), but it was awesome in all sorts of other ways too.
The matter-of-factual recounting of the day-to-day absurdities of prison-life, for example. One prisoner got to be so trusted that the tower warder actually left him with the key to the tower. The prison governor discovered this one day and the tower warder just shrugged and said, "Don't worry, he won't go anywhere." And the many minor battles with and victories over the succession of prison governors, tower warders, and especially maids over the years. It turns out that the kind of woman who agrees to live in prison to wait on a lady for money is not often the kind of woman who is socially acceptable enough to have many other options in life.
Also, Leonora Christina is MacGyver. Particularly in the early years she had absolutely nothing, so she gets bits of ribbon from her clothes for the thread, scavenges a pin, is given a broken wooden spoon which she carves into shape with a bit of broken glass and so on and so forth, and next thing you know she's weaving. Her first ink is made by letting soot settle on a metal spoon held over a candle.
Later on she's given an allowance and allowed books and writing materials, and she writes her collections of "Heroines" (mythical, historical and contemporary comingled; she sorted them according to the kind of way in which they were heroical), of which I believe part is still extant. Other of her writings aren't, all: there was apparently a play which would have been delightful to read. The memoirs include a number of hymns she composed, which even in translation aren't half bad.
She's not such a brilliant naturalist -- her observations of the life cycle of fleas are... more bewildering than anything. But no-one's perfect.
In short: full of awesome.
(Warnings: includes some violence on the part of her guards towards animals. Also, alas, near the end includes a short second-hand account of marital rape, about which the writer's opinion is explicitly "That'll teach her to refuse to have sex with her husband." o.O )… (més)
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- ISBN
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