author
Anders Ramsay
1832–1910
A businessman and writer from Finland’s Swedish-speaking world, he turned his later years into a vivid memoir of nineteenth-century life. His remembered scenes of family, travel, and everyday society helped make his work a lasting favorite.
4 Audiobooks
Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 1 Kuvauksia
by Anders Ramsay
Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 2 Kuvauksia
by Anders Ramsay
Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen 3 Kuvauksia
by Anders Ramsay
Jalkamatkoilta
by Anders Ramsay
About the author
Born in Vyborg in 1832 and later active as a manor owner, businessman, and writer, Anders Gustaf Ramsay is best known for the memoirs he published late in life. He died in Helsinki in 1910.
His major work, Från barnaår till silfverhår—known in Finnish as Muistoja lapsen ja hopeahapsen—grew into a wide-ranging autobiographical series. Readers have valued it not just as a personal life story, but as a lively picture of Finland in the 1800s, especially the world of the Swedish-speaking upper classes.
What makes Ramsay interesting today is the way he records small details as well as larger social changes. His books preserve memories of childhood, travel, manners, and daily life, giving modern readers an intimate window into a vanished era.