Victoria Benedictsson

Victoria Bruzelius, born on 6 March 1850 in Domme, in Scania, the daughter of a farmer, grew up without going to school. She worked as a governess to pay for art studies in Stockholm, which her father eventually forbade, and at twenty-one married Christian Benedictsson, postmaster of Hörby, a widower twenty-eight years her senior and father of five children. An illness left her disabled; in 1884 she published her first stories under the name Ernst Ahlgren. Later involved with the Danish critic Georg Brandes, she took her own life in Copenhagen in July 1888.

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