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The Victorian World:
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lapland, Iceland & Greenland
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- Christmas in the North (Demorest, 1873)
- Christmas traditions in Scandinavia and Russia.
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- The Midsummer Night Sun
(Leisure Hour, 1860)
- A Plunge into Dannemora
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1875)
- A visit to the great mine of Dannemora in Sweden.
- Children of All Nations: Sweden and Norway, by Anna Beale
(Little Folks, 1883)
- Swedish Girls, by Anne Beale
(Girl's Own Paper, 1884)
- The Ancient City of Wisby, by W.W. Thomas, Jr.
(Harper's Monthly, 1889A)
- Courtship in Sweden, by Peveril
(Girl's Own Paper, 1892)
- Life at a Swedish Farm, by Peveril
(Girl's Own Paper, 1892)
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- Tivoli
(Cassell's Family Paper, 1860)
- A Run to Copenhagen, by James Baker
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1886)
- The Royal Danish Theatre, by William Archer
(Harper's Monthly, 1892A)
- The Amphibious Boat, by James Walter Smith
(The Strand, 1897B)
- A look at a small steam launch in Denmark that ferries passengers over land and water.
- [Skagen] A Danish Newlyn, by A.E. Fletcher
(Windsor Magazine, 1900B)
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- The Ancient Languages of Finland
(Demorest, 1879)
- Finland, by Henry Lansdell, DD and Albert Edelfelt
(Harper's Monthly, 1891A)
- Two articles about Finland; the first looks at the country and the second at the people.
- Women in Finland
(Girl's Own Paper, 1896)
- Kronstadt the Impregnable
(Windsor Magazine, 1897B)
- A description of fortifications in the Gulf of Finland, written 40 years earlier.
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Lapland, Iceland & Greenland
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- Though Lapland is now part of Finland, it was not so in Victorian days, so we have listed it separately.
- Among the Lapps, by the Rev. W. Bramley-Moore
(Leisure Hour, 1868)
- Seal Hunting in Greenland North
(Cassell's Family Magazine, 1875)
- Iceland
(Demorest, 1880)
- Lapp Girls
(Girl's Own Paper, 1888)
- Eskimos Ancient and Modern, by Baron A.E. Nordenskiold
(English Illustrated Magazine, 1892A)
- "The Eskimos occupy an enormous area, extending from the west coast of Greenland to Behring Strait, and covering the whole of polar America." This article looks primarily at Eskimo life in Greenland.
- Life on a Greenland Whaler, by A. Conan Doyle
(The Strand, 1897A)
- • See also Norway
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