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Victoria Benedictsson

1850 - 1888

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Victoria Benedictsson (6 March 1850 in Domme – 22 July 1888) was a Swedish author and playwright writing under the pen name Ernst Ahlgren. Despite her writing career being relatively short, she is, together with August Strindberg, regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the Swedish realist writing style and an important part of the Modern Breakthrough. In her novels she mainly depicts marriage problems and current women's issues, with notable works including Pengar (1885; Money) and Fru Marianne (1887; Mrs. Marianne). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victoria Benedictsson is the 3,089th most popular writer (up from 3,217th in 2019), the 465th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 453rd in 2019) and the 36th most popular Swedish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victoria Benedictsson ranks 3,089 out of 7,302. Before her are Philotheus of Pskov, Charles Pinot Duclos, Elmore Leonard, Samuel Smiles, Antoninus Liberalis, and Dodie Smith. After her are Can Xue, Breyten Breytenbach, Howard Fast, Alexey Troitsky, John Edward Williams, and Laza Kostić.

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Among people born in 1850, Victoria Benedictsson ranks 62. Before her are Alphonse Pénaud, Gregory VII of Constantinople, Josias von Heeringen, Augusto Righi, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, and Alfred Edwards. After her are Enrico Cecchetti, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Aleksander Gierymski, Anastasia Golovina, Adolf Martens, and Woldemar Voigt. Among people deceased in 1888, Victoria Benedictsson ranks 55. Before her are Asa Gray, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Laurence Oliphant, Stephen Heller, and Raffi. After her are Carl Christian Hall, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Princess Marie of Prussia, Turki bin Said, Philip Henry Gosse, and Jozef Miloslav Hurban.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson ranks 465 out of 1,879. Before her are Bengt Gustavsson (1928), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), Robert Themptander (1844), August Nilsson (1872), and Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710). After her are Margot Wallström (1954), Knut Kroon (1906), Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Martin Lundström (1918), Anna Q. Nilsson (1888), and Kerstin Ekman (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson ranks 36. Before her are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Jonas Jonasson (1961), Lars Norén (1944), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), and Gunilla Bergström (1942). After her are Kerstin Ekman (1933), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), and Liza Marklund (1962).

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