Lovisa Mathilda Roos (

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

, M. Rs.; 2 August 1852 – 17 July 1908) was a Swedish writer.

Biography

Lovisa Mathilda Roos was born 2 August 1852, in

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. Her parents were Malte Leopold Roos (1806–1882), a colonel at Svea Artillery Regiment, and Mathilda (Tilda) Beata Meurk (born 1821). She was educated at home and at Åhlinska skolan. Remaining unmarried, she lived with his sister Anna and sometimes also with

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, with whom she built the Furuliden house in Stocksund, which later became, as she had hoped, a rest home for women. Roos was a member of the women's association Nya Idun and one of its first committee members. Roos' novels usually dealt with women's issues and misconduct in society. She was not afraid to address sensitive subjects at that time including lesbian love in (The First Love). A religious crisis in the 1880s affected her later books. In the novel (White Heather), she takes up the unclear living conditions of a teacher and rape. This is considered to have contributed to a government decision that greatly improved teachers' salaries. In women's political pamphlets, she addressed Ellen Key's ideas, (A word to Miss Ellen Key and to the Swedish woman), 1896. Roos died 17 July 1908, in Danderyd.

Selected works

;Fiction * , 1881. * , 1883. * , 1884. * , 1886. * , 1887. * , 1888. * , 1889. * , 1890. * , 1891. * , 1891. * , 1892. * , 1896. * , 1896. * , 1896. * , 1897. * , 1898. * , 1898. * , 1903-1904. * , 1906. * , 1907. * , 1907. * , 1908. * , 1909. ;For children and young readers * , 1891. Illustrated by

Jenny Nyström Jenny Eugenia Nyström (13 or 15 June 1854 in Kalmar, Sweden – 17 January 1946 in Stockholm) was a painter and illustrator mainly known as the creator of the Swedish image of the '' jultomte'' on Christmas cards and magazine covers, thu ...

. * , 1892. * , 1893. * , 1893. * , 1893. * , 1894. Illustrated by Jenny Nyström. * , 1894. * , 1894. * , 1895. * , 1898. * , 1898. * , 1898. * , 1901. * , 1905. Illustrated by Jenny Nyström.

References

Bibliography

* Heggestad, Eva (1991). Uppsala: Avd. för litteratursociologi vid Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, Univ.
Förbjuden, olycklig kärlek

'' Svenskt författarlexikon: biobibliografisk handbok till Sveriges moderna litteratur''. , 1900-1940 Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. 1942. pp. 677-678.

External links

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