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Article: Kysse Marie: En historie om Marie Grubbe.
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- World Literature Today
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- January 1, 1996
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In Kysse Marie: En historie om Marie Grubbe (Kissy Marie: A Story About Marie Grubbe) Juliane Preisler has chosen to revisit the historical figure of Marie Grubbe, a subject of earlier Danish fiction by Steen Steensen Blicher (Brudstykker af en Landsbydegns Dagbog [Remnants of a Village Deacon's Diary!, 1824) and, most notably, by the naturalist novelist par excellence Jens Peter Jacobsen (Fru Marie Grubbe [Lady Marie Grubbe!, 1876). The fate of Marie Grubbe is an intriguing, disturbing, strangely compelling one: the daughter of seventeenth-century Juttish landed nobility, Marie initially married far above her station, taking as her first husband Ulrik Frederik Gyldenlove, ...