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Emily Nonnen (22 February 1812 — 19 January 1905) was a British-Swedish writer, translator and artist.
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Emily Nonnen (22 February 1812 — 19 January 1905) was a British-Swedish writer, translator and artist.
Biography
Emily Nonnen was born 22 February 1812,London
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, Great Britain.''Systrarna på Liseberg'', sid. 19. She was the sister of Mary, Charlotte, Ann and Edward Nonnen. She moved to her maternal uncle in Sweden from Great Britain as a child. She was educated at the Societetsskolan Societetsskolan i Göteborg för döttrar ('Society School for Daughters in Gothenburg') or simply ''Societetsskolan'' ('Society School'), was a Swedish girls' school managed by the congregation of the Moravian Church in Gothenburg from 1 November ...
.
She wrote novels for young adults and translated English literature to Swedish, among them ''Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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'' by Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
. She also translated Swedish-language poets’ work into English.
She died 19 January 1905, in Gothenburg
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Legacy
The Nonnensgatan (Nonnenstreet) in Bö in Gothenburg was named after the Nonnen sisters in 1944.References
Bibliography
* Nonnen, Emily; Holmgren, Greta, ed. (2008). ''Systrarna på Liseberg: anteckningar ur familjen Nonnens brev och dagböcker.'' ew edition.Göteborg: Kabusa. Libris 10602400. (inb.)Further reading
* 1812 births 1905 deaths 19th-century Swedish writers 19th-century British novelists 19th-century British translators 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers British emigrants to Sweden English–Swedish translators Translators to English {{Sweden-writer-stub