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Victoria Benedictsson
Victoria Benedictsson was born in 1850 and committed suicide in 1888 after an unhappy love affair with the Danish critic Georg Brandes, who
seems to have undermined her strength by criticizing her work as too feminine. Her death is believed to be the inspiration for Strindberg’s “Miss Julie”. Benedictsson was, in the short career she had as a writer, an important and dangerous voice in the struggle for women’s rights and free love.
Benedictsson wrote several books, plays and short stories under the male pen-name Ernst Ahlgren. Her work focuses mainly on women’s situation in the 1900th century. Her diary and several other books have been published posthumously, though her friend Axel Lundegård modified these texts. Her best known works are the novels “Money” and “Lady Marianne”, but also the posthumously published drama “The Enchantment”.
Benedictsson is today regarded as one of the most important Swedish 1900th century writers and there is a widespread interest in her work, especially among literature history students, but also among others interested in an alternative to Strindberg’s views. Her diaries have been printed in a soft cover edition and widely spread and several of her other works are in print while the rest is availible on the internet.
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Money
“Money” is Benedictsson's first novel, published in 1885. It's a book that questions the loveless marriages of the 1900th century, but also a story about forming your own identity and the will to create your own way of life, regardless of the expectations of others.
The Enchantment
“The Enchantment”, written in 1888 – the year of Benedictsson's death – was never completely finished. I's an auto fiction that goes beyond the biographical level and explores a situation where love becomes destructive.
Publications
Money
by Victoria Benedictsson
The Enchantment
by Victoria BenedictssonBooks of special interest
The Merman
by Carl-Johan Vallgren
Echoes from the Dead
by Johan Theorin
New Collected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer
Children's books
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
by Selma Lagerlöf
Pippi Longstocking
by Astrid Lindgren
Bridget and the Moose Brothers
by Pija Lindenbaum
When Owen's Mom Breathed Fire
by Pija Lindenbaum
The Diamond Mystery
by Martin WidmarkThe Literary Magazine lists
New Collected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer
I Die, But the Memory Lives On
by Henning Mankell
The Man from Beijing
by Henning Mankell
Latest reveiws
Current reveiws
Absolutely astounding. Nobel consideration should be given
Review: Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson
The best thriller I've read for a long long time!
Review: The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
