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

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. She wrote under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren. Notable works include ''Pengar'' (1885) and ''Fru Marianne'' (1887).

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Benedictsson grew up on a farm in Sweden. At 21 she married a 49-year-old widower from

Hörby Hörby () (old da, Hørby) is a locality and the seat of Hörby Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 15 631 inhabitants in 2019. 6 km (3.7 mi) south-east of the center of Hörby is at least since 1959 the location of a radio and ...

. 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 Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty p ...

, 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 Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (4 February 1842 – 19 February 1927) was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind ...

. She also wrote

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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 The Royal Dramatic Theatre ( sv, Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially ''Dramaten'') is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's five running stages. The the ...

in Stockholm gaining a big success. Then the play was serialized in ''

Familie Journalen ''Familie Journalen'' is a Danish language weekly family and women's magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark. Launched in 1877 the magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country. It was also published in Norway and Sweden. History a ...

'' in 1887. She committed suicide in room No. 17 in Leopold's Hotel on Hovedvagtsgade – near

Kongens Nytorv Kongens Nytorv ( lit. "The King's New Square") is a public square in Copenhagen, Denmark, centrally located at the end of the pedestrian street Strøget. The largest square of the city, it was laid out by Christian V in 1670 in connection with ...

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 {{Sweden-writer-stub

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