Elisabeth Beskow
Elisabeth Beskow | |
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 Elisabeth Beskow | |
| Born | Elisabeth Maria Beskow November 19, 1870 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Died | October 17, 1928 (aged 57)[1] Åre, Jämtland |
| Pen name | Runa |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | Swedish |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Relatives | Natanael Beskow (cousin) Elsa Beskow (cousin's wife) |
Elisabeth Maria Beskow (19 November 1870 – 17 October 1928) was a Swedish author. Born in Stockholm, Sweden she went to the Beskow School and later studied at the Sabbatsberg Hospital as well as the Sophiahemmet. She wrote about fifty books under the pseudonym Runa. A number of her books are translated into Danish, Finnish, French, English, German and Dutch.[2]
In her books she discussed the equal rights of men and women and spoke against animal testing and for vegetarianism.
Bibliography—a selection
- Allt eller intet (1895)
- Från skogarna och fjällen (Beijer, 1896)
- På Elghyttan (Fosterlandsstift, 1902)
- Nina (Fosterlandsstift, 1903)
- Var rädd om din krona! (Stockholm Fosterlandsstift : Barnaserien, 1903)
- Gamle prästen i Hornsjö och andra berättelser (Fosterlandsstiftelsen, 1904)
- Sagor och berättelser för barn (Palmquist, 1904)
- Med blicken mot det osynliga (Fosterlandsstift., 1906)
- Katri berättelse (Fosterlandsstiftelsen, 1907, Bibliotek för de unga. Ungdomsserien ; 6)
- Röster (A. V. Carlson, 1909)
- Den ljusnande framtid (Fosterlandsstift, 1910, Bibliotek för de unga. Ungdomsserien ; 9)
- Vildfågel (A. V. Carlson, 1911)
- I vildmarken och andra berättelser från Lappland (A. V. Carlson, 1911)
- Korsfararne, handling i dramatisk form, (A. V. Carlson, 1912)
- Ljudande malm (Rock Island, Ill. : Augustana Book Concern, [1912?])
- Vildfågels näste (A. V. Carlson, 1913)
- En tonskapelse berättelse (A. V. Carlson, 1913)
- Han och hans hustru (A. V. Carlson, 1915)
- Grannarna i Västanfors (A. V. Carlson, 1916)
- Sif (Carlson, 1917)
- Lärobok i stenografi (Gumperts bokh. i distr., 1917)
- Birger Löwing (A. V. Carlson, 1918)
- Hans moders gud (A. V. Carlson, 1914)
- Birger Löwing (A. V. Carlson, 1918)
- Den lille väpnaren, sagor och berättelser för barn 2:a uppl, (Lindblad, 1919)
- Fostersyskonen (Stockholm, 1922)
- Hans ögons ljus (A. V. Carlson, 1923
- Ekekronas (A. V. Carlson, 1924)
- Fader och son (A. V. Carlson, 1925)
- Gossar och flickor (Lindblad, 1925)
- Ols Barbro (A. V. Carlson, 1921)
- Skalunga I och II (Carlson 1919–25)
- Skiftande dagrar berättelser (Lindblad, 1926)
- Trettonåringar (A. V. Carlson, 1926)
- Testamentet (A. V. Carlson, 1927)
- Vårdrömmar (Uppsala, 1927)
- Förnyelse, (A. V. Carlson, 1928)
- Vardagsliv
References
- ^ Sveriges Dödbok 1901–2009 (DVD-ROM, 5 ed.). Solna: Sveriges Släktforskarförbund. 2010. ISBN 978-91-87676-59-8.
- ^ Oterdahl, Jeanna (1924). "Elisabeth M Beskow". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (in Swedish). Vol. 04. Stockholm: National Archives of Sweden. p. 88. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
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