Victoria Benedictsson

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Victoria Benedictsson
Victoria Benedictsson
Born	Victoria Maria Bruzelius 6 March 1850  Domme
Died	23 July 1888  (aged 38) Copenhagen
Resting place	Vestre Cemetery
Occupation	Writer
Spouse(s)	Christian Benedictsson
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Victoria Benedictsson (March 6, 1850 in Domme – July 21, 1888) was a Swedish author. She was born as Victoria Maria Bruzelius in Domme, a village in the province of Skåne. She wrote under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren. Notable works include Pengar (1885) and Fru Marianne (1887).^[1]

Life[]

Benedictsson grew up on a farm in Sweden. At 21 she married a 49-year-old widower from Hörby. After an illness left her bed-bound, Benedictsson turned to writing, publishing her first collection of stories, Från Skåne, in 1884.^[2] She is, together with August Strindberg, regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the Swedish realist writing style. In her novels she described the inequality of marriage and often debated women's rights issues in her writings. Current critics see her as an early feminist; earlier the focus was on her love affair with Georg Brandes.^[3]

She committed suicide in a room in Leopold's Hotel on Hovedvagtsgade – near Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.^[4]

References[]

Further reading[]

• Victoria Benedictsson at Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victoria Benedictsson.

• Works by Victoria Benedictsson at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Ernst Ahlgren at Internet Archive
• Works by Victoria Benedictsson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Victoria Lives! Columbia University conference, March 10–11, 2000, on the occasion of her 150th birthday

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