Victoria Benedictsson


Victoria Benedictsson was a Swedish author. She was born as Victoria Maria Bruzelius in Domme, a village in the province of Skåne. She wrote under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren.

Life

Benedictsson grew up on a farm in Sweden. At 21 she married a 49-year-old widower from Hörby.
She is, together with August Strindberg, regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the Swedish realist writing style. In her novels she described the inequality of marriage and often debated women's rights issues in her writings. Current critics see her as an early feminist; earlier the focus was on her love affair with Georg Brandes.
She committed suicide in a room in Leopold's Hotel on Hovedvagtsgade – near Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.