Livet sett fra et dameskrivebord

Sammendrag

We are in the Schjelderup family's home on Karl Johan's Street in Kristiania (Oslo) - the city's most modern street - in 1882-83. The 50-year-old Madam Consul Schjelderup is sitting in her big apartment writing a series of letters to her daughter, Fanny. Fanny is 16-17 years old and is enrolled at a boarding school for young girls in Sunnfjord in Western Norway. We meet the upper class lady just where we expect to find her, at a ladies writing desk, a characteristic piece of furniture among the Victorian era's upper class.