- Regine Olsen. Bearing all the attributes of the romantic ideal of woman, she truly is enchantingly
lovely as she sits here, a girl of eighteen summers, in Emil Bærentzen’s chaste but intimate rendering
from 1840. That same year she became engaged to Kierkegaard, who was ten years older than she
was, thereby unknowingly securing herself a sort of literary immortality. A year and a half after her
misalliance with Kierkegaard, she became engaged to Fritz Schlegel, who was a diplomat both by
profession and by temperament, and was thus well-suited to be a husband.
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