biography
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Collett, (Jacobine) Camilla
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née Wergeland
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| female
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| lived:
| (1813–95)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Kristiansand, S Norway, the sister of Henrik Arnold Wergeland. A champion of women's rights and social justice, she brought realism to Norwegian fiction in such books as Amtmandens Døttre (1855, The Magistrate's Daughter) and I den Lange Neeter (1862, In the Long Nights). |
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