Jezzica Israelsson, Making themselves heard: Women’s and men’s voice through the regional petitioning process in Sweden, 1758-1880 (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2024). viii + 452 pp.

Noble Baron and Governor, Knight of His Majesty's Order of the North Star.Your Grace.At Christmas, my husband Anders Garling, a soldier in the Royal Infantry Regiment of Vstmanland and Kungrs' Company No 77 was unfortunately reported to have been shot dead, leaving me and my two poor children to heartfelt grief and loss.What is more, the owners of the soldier's croft immediately want to force me to leave it Therefore, I, poor and defenceless soldier's woman, am compelled to flee to Your Grace in deepest humility and most humbly supplicate: that I be graciously allowed the same right to remain on the croft until next Michaelmas.Awaiting a gracious response and affirmative decision to my plea, I remain in most profound veneration until my dying breath, Your Grace's Most humble servant Margta Andersdotter, poor widow of the deceased soldier Anders Garling per pro E Garman