Helene Johanne Caroline Schjørring (née Krohne; 4 June 1836 in
Skive – 9 March 1910 in
Frederiksberg
Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the region of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of less tha ...
) was a Danish author of
Bildungsroman
In literary criticism, a bildungsroman () is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth and change of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood (coming of age). The term comes from the German words ('formation' or 'edu ...
novels, a genre of
coming of age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can b ...
novels, such as ''Esther's History'' (1884), ''Sirius'' (1900), ''Lange Skygger'' (1904) and ''Iris'' (1907). A member of the
Danish Women's Society, she was one of the first ten women in
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
to be awarded state support for her writing in 1883.
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1836 births
1910 deaths
19th-century Danish novelists
20th-century Danish novelists
People from Skive Municipality
19th-century Danish women writers
20th-century Danish women writers
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