Bakelse-Jeanna

Bakelse-Jeanna (1702–1788), was a Swedish pastry-seller, the name signifying "Pastry-Jeanna". She was a well known and distinctive character in Stockholm at that time, and often used as a figure within Swedish plays, songs and literature during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Bakelse-Jeanna in an 1820 book illustration. Copper plate engraving by Johan Gustaf Ruckman

Reality and fiction

Jeanna originated from Åland, and spent her life as a street seller (månglerska) of cakes in Stockholm, where she became a familiar figure. She came to be included in fiction during her lifetime.

She was a character in the comedy Donnerpamp by Carl Israel Hallman from 1782.[1] She was the subject of a song by Carl Michael Bellman, popular in Stockholm. She came to be mentioned as a minor character in many works of Swedish literature during the 19th century.

The name "Bakelse-Jeanna" was long used in Stockholm as a name for female pastry street vendors.[2]

See also

References
  1. Flodmark, Johan: Stenborgska skådebanorna. Bidrag till Stockholms Teaterhistoria. P. A. Norstedt & Söner (1893), p. 165
  2. Lundin, Claës; Strindberg, August (1882). Gamla Stockholm: anteckningar ur tryckta och otryckta källor [Old Stockholm: notes on printed and unprinted sources] (in Swedish). Seligmann. pp. 241–243.

Further reading
  • Acta Philologica Scandinavica, Vol. 10, Munksgaard, 1936
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