On October 16 this year, my Facebook feed started to fill up with #MeToo – friends acknowledging that they had at some time been sexually harassed or assaulted. A simple hashtag and suddenly the whole world was talking about how men mistreat women. It made me think of Augusta and her time period. I can’t imagine that she and her friends, who all belonged to […]
Dress Detectives
– Do you remember when we tried on Augusta’s dresses in the attic of Aunt Agneta? Kerstin asked me. No … I didn’t remember that. I remember staying in the 18-century washhouse by the lake shore in which our aunt had lived during our childhood summers. – Sure you were there too! It was probably in 1977. There was an old trunk there with two dresses. […]
