Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century

Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in Jutland, in the little town of Thisted, on April 7, and was the son of a merchant in moderate circumstances. From his mother he inherited a desire to write poetry, which asserted itself while he was yet a boy. His other chief interest was botany.

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