Sigrid
Lidströmer (1866–1942), granddaughter of the architect
Fredrik August Lidströmer, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator. She wrote articles in the Swedish literary magazine ''
Idun,'' wrote and translated songs,
[Lennart Reimer's Music Archives, Part of the Swedish State Musicological Archives, Stockholm] novels, short stories, polemical articles, and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish,
German, French and English.
She corresponded with
Oscar Wilde and translated his
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other m ...
into Swedish.
Her main interests were women's rights, education, literary debate and general human rights.
[''Ord och Bild'' (Word and Picture), Magazine (12th-21st volumes)]
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1866 births
1942 deaths
Swedish translators
Swedish women writers
Translators to Swedish