Amanda Kerfstedt
Illustration — Amanda Kerfstedt Hilda Augusta Amanda Kerfstedt, née Hallström (5 June 1835, in Eskilstuna – 10 April 1920, in Stockholm), was a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. She was a popular and noted writer in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden, and participated in public debate. She was also engaged in the movement for women's rights, and active in the Fredrika Bremer Association and Married Woman's Property Rights Association.
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Amanda Kerfstedt
Anton Blomberg · Tidskriften Idun 1901 · Public domain
- Born
- 1835 · Eskilstuna parish.
- Died
- 1920 · Gustav Vasa parish.
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Occupation
- writer · translator · novelist · playwright
- Fields
- women's suffrage in Sweden
- Languages
- Swedish
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Kerfstedt was a member of the women's association Nya Idun and one of its first committee members. She was the editor of the feminist paper Dagny, the publication of the Fredrika Bremer Association, in 1888–1891. She was especially noted within the debate on children's literature.debate on children's literature?
Kerfstedt was born to Sven August Hallström, mayor of Eskilstuna, and Albertina Dybeck, and was the maternal niece to scientist Richard Dybeck. She married Hedemora parish vicar Bengt Gustaf Lindgren (d. 1858) in 1855, and Petrus Kerfstedt (d. 1906), principal at the Tomteboda institute for the blind, in 1872. She had two children; her son Hellen Lindgren became a well known literary critic.
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Amanda Kerfstedt (5 June 1835 – 10 April 1920) is described as a writer and translator in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Amanda Kerfstedt was born on 5 June 1835 in Eskilstuna and died on 10 April 1920 in Stockholm.
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