Anne Charlotte Leffler

Anne Charlotte Leffler, born in Stockholm on 1 October 1849, the daughter of the school director John Olof Leffler and sister of the mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler, published her first stories under a pseudonym. In 1872 she married the jurist Gustaf Edgren, who did not share her ideas, and separated from him. A friend of the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya, she married in Rome in 1890 the Neapolitan mathematician Pasquale del Pezzo, Duke of Cajanello. She gave birth to a son in June 1892 and died in Naples on 21 October of that year, aged forty-three.

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• TheatreTrue WomenSanna kvinnorAnne Charlotte Leffler · 1883LiteraturePublic domain