Editing Fredrika Bremer (section)

==Activism==
Following her return to Sweden in November, Bremer attempted to engage its middle- and upper-class ladies in social work similar to what she had found in America and England. She co-founded the Stockholm Women's Society for Children's Care (''{{lang|sv|Skyddsmödraförening}}'' or ''{{lang|sv|Stockholms Fruntimmersförening för Barnavård}}'') to assist the orphans left by the [[1853 Stockholm cholera outbreak]] {{sfnp|Hellberg|1872|p=[https://runeberg.org/hjcminnet/8/0015.html 7]}} and the [[Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring|Women's Society for the Improvement of Prisoners]] (''{{lang|sv|Fruntimmersällskapet för Fångars Förbättring}}'') to provide moral guidance and rehabilitation of female inmates in 1854.{{sfnp|Elmund|1973}} On 28 August 1854, amid the [[Crimean War]], the [[The Times|London ''Times'']] published her "Invitation to a Peace Alliance" alongside an editorial rebuke of its contents: a [[pacifism|pacifist]] appeal to [[Christianity|Christian]] women.{{sfnp|Forsås-Scott|1997|p=48}}

In 1856, she published her novel ''[[Hertha (novel)|Hertha]]'' as ''A Sketch from Real Life'' and concluded its fictionalized assault on the 2nd-class status of adult unmarried women under the [[1734 Civil Code]] with an appendix recounting recent Swedish court cases on the topic.{{sfnp|Forsås-Scott|1997|p=49}} The work prompted the ''Hertha'' Discussion (''{{lang|sv|Herthadiskussionen}}''){{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}} throughout Swedish society, reaching [[Swedish Parliament|Parliament]] in 1858. There, the old system was reformed to allow (unmarried) women to petition their nearest courthouse (rather than the royal court) at the age of 25. Five years later, the legislation was revisited and all (unmarried) women were considered to automatically reach [[legal majority]] at 25. This did not affect the status of married women, who were still under the guardianship of their husbands, or divorced women or widows, who were already of legal majority. The novel also successfully raised the question of a "women's university". [[Högre Lärarinneseminariet]], a state [[normal school|school for the education of female teachers]], was opened in 1861.{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}}

Bremer was not present during the ''Hertha'' Discussion, since from 1856 to 1861 she participated in another great journey through Europe and the [[Levant]]. Leaving on 27 May 1856, she first visited Switzerland, [[Brussels]], and Paris over the course of a year.{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}} She was particularly interested in Switzerland's still-nascent "[[Religion in Switzerland#Freedom of religion|free church]]".<ref name=afbs/> From September 1857, she traveled through the [[List of historic states of Italy#From the Restoration to the Unification|still-disunified Italian peninsula]],{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}} contrasting the [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] practices of the [[Papal States]] with the [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] [[Church of Sweden|Swedish Church]].<ref name=afbs/> Finally, she left [[Messina]] for [[Malta]] and thence traveled to [[Ottoman Palestine|Palestine]], arriving on 30 January 1859{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}} and, though nearly 60 years old, tracing the life of [[Jesus Christ]] by ship, train, wagon, and horseback.<ref name=afbs/> She stayed in [[Constantinople]] before touring [[Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach)|Greece]] from August 1859 to May 1861. She reached Stockholm on 4 July 1861. Her accounts of the trip were published as ''Life in the Old World'' in six volumes from 1860 to 1862.{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}}

Upon her return to Sweden, she expressed her satisfaction with the reforms ''Hertha'' had prompted and took an interest in [[Högre Lärarinneseminariet]] and its students. She resumed her charitable projects and assisted with the ''[[Swedish Home Journal|Home Journal]]'', the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, which [[Sophie Adlersparre]] had founded during her absence. After a final trip to [[German Confederation|Germany]] from July to October in 1862, she remained in Sweden the rest of her life. She was reportedly pleased with the abolition of the [[Swedish Diet|Diet]] in Sweden and of [[abolition of slavery in the USA|slavery]] in the United States.{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}} She died at [[Årsta Castle]] outside of [[Stockholm]] on 31 December 1865.{{sfnp|''SBL''|1926}}