Wår lärda Skalde-Fru Sophia Elisabet Brenner och hennes tid

Valborg Lindgärde (Stockholm: Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet, 2009), is an exemplary one, and its editor a long standing proponent of Brenner's literary heritage. Since the publication of her dissertation, Jesu Christi pijnos historia (see the review in Scandinavian Studies 71.3), Lindgärde has been an acknowledged expert on Brenner, and together with Elisabet Göransson, she was the organizer of a symposium at Lund University in 2009 that lies directly behind this collection of twenty-four essays on Brenner's work and time period. The editors of War larda Skalde-Fru have attempted to draw the reader back into the late 1600s by first laying out in a pedagogical manner her biography (Lindgärde), some of the extraordinarily negative pressures upon artistic women of the time (articles by Jon Helgason and Erland Sellberg) followed by discussions of all sorts of ancillary topics: her husband's coins and miniature paintings; settings of poetry to music; connections (or attempts at connections) to other authors; command of Latin, Italian, and German; type faces; medallions- all expertly laid out and nicely illustrated.