Born: 1 October 1849, Sweden
Died: 21 October 1892
Country most active: Sweden
Also known as: Carlot (pseudonym)
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, a Swedish realistic novelist and dramatist. Her short stories, By Chance, From Life, A Summer Story, Woman and Love – and her dramas, The Actress, The Curate, The Fairy, Ideal Women, The Struggle for Happiness, and A Rescuing Angel, are the most noteworthy and characteristic of her many works.
Her dramatic method forms a connecting link between Isben and Strindberg, and its masculien directness, freedom from prejudice, and frankness gave her work a high estimation in Sweden.
Her last book was a biography (1892) of her friend Sonya Kovalevsky. Her Life by Ellen Key, was published in 1893.
IW note: For years, she carried on a “romantic friendship” with the brilliant Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya.