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).
Biography
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. She is, together with
August Strindberg
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, 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
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. She also wrote
plays
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one of which was entitled ''I Telefon'' (Swedish: On Telephone) which was performed
twenty-seven times at the
Royal Dramatic Theatre
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in Stockholm gaining a big success.
[ Then the play was serialized in '']Familie Journalen
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'' in 1887.
She committed suicide in room No. 17 in Leopold's Hotel on Hovedvagtsgade – near Kongens Nytorv
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in Copenhagen. She is buried in city's Western Cemetery.A Brief Biography of Victoria Benedictsson
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1850 births
1888 deaths
People from Trelleborg Municipality
Swedish-language writers
Swedish expatriates in Denmark
Suicides by sharp instrument in Denmark
Pseudonymous women writers
19th-century Swedish women writers
19th-century Swedish dramatists and playwrights
1880s suicides
19th-century pseudonymous writers
Swedish women dramatists and playwrights
Burials at Vestre Cemetery, Copenhagen
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