Toini Topelius

Toini Topelius
Born	(1854-03-14)March 14, 1854 Helsinki, Finland
Died	October 24, 1910(1910-10-24) (aged 56) Ljan, Norway
Language	Swedish
Nationality	Finnish

Toini Mathilda Topelius (March 14, 1854 Helsinki, Finland - October 24, 1910 Ljan, Norway) was a Finnish journalist and a writer for young people.

Life

Her parents were writer Zacharias Topelius and Emilie Lindqvist. She went with her sister Eva with Swedish Rouvasväenkoulua and then studied art in Stockholm. Topelius suffered impaired hearing and he devoted herself mainly to literary paintings.

She published in Swedish Nya Trollsländan, a children's magazine, with Alexandra Gripenberg in the years 1885-1892 and 1891–1892 in Alta Dahlgren. She also published Waxwing magazine in Finnish. She published travel letters and served as reviewer of children's books. Her novel I utvecklingstid (1889) was first published in Finnish, and she also published fairy tale collections.

Topelius moved in the late 1890s in Norway, where she lived the rest of her years.

Works

• I utvecklingstid. 1889 (nimimerkillä Tea; suomeksi nimellä Kehitysaikana, Otava 1890)
• Julgubben : bilderbok med text, af Tea. Edlund, Helsingfors 1889
• Familjen Himmelstjärna och Sidensvahnska bolaget : 10-16-åringar tillegnade. Edlund, *Helsingfors 1892 (suomeksi nimellä Tähtisen perhe ja tilhispesä, Otava 1893)
• Mietteitä naisesta ja siveellisyyskäsitteestä, esitelmä. Helsinki 1892
• Sommarsjö och vintersnö : sagor och berättelser. Bonnier, Stockholm 1897 (suomeksi nimellä Kesäisiä ja talvisia tarinoita, satuja ja kertomuksia, WSOY 1898)
• Sommarsjö och vintersnö : sagor och berättelser, andra samlingen. Bonnier, Stockholm 1900

External links

• Works by Toini Topelius at Project Gutenberg