Agnes von Krusenstjerna

Agnes von Krusenstjerna was born in Växjö on 9 October 1894, the daughter of an officer, and grew up in Visby, in Gävle and then in Stockholm. From adolescence the first signs appeared of an illness that had affected several young people in her family; engaged in 1914, she fell ill the same year and was treated in a sanatorium. She married the critic and translator David Sprengel, fourteen years her senior, in 1921, and ended by breaking with her own family. She died in Stockholm on 10 March 1940, shortly after an operation for a brain tumour, at the age of forty-five.

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• NovelFröknarna von PahlenAgnes von Krusenstjerna · 1930not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain