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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE1
BY LILY WOLPPSOHN
" The life of a woman by a woman" might be the
subtitle of the book now presented for the first time to the
British public; and the adjectives, " eminent and
remarkable," might with justice be added to both nouns.
For Anna Carlotta Leffler, the author of " Sonya
Kova-lévsky," was no less gifted than the subject of the
biography, and it is for this reason that, by way of introduction,
we here give a sketch of her life founded on the following
works: an inedited autobiography, kindly lent by the Duke
of Cajanello, her second husband; a biography in the
Swedish language, by Ellen Key, published by E. Bonnier,
Stockholm; an article in the " Vie Contemporaine," entitled
, Femmes du Nord," by Count Prozor; a biography, by
Gegjerstam, in " Ord o Bild "; and an introduction to the
novels of Anna Carlotta Leffler, by the Duchess of Andrea
(Italian edition, Loescher and Co.).
Anna Carlotta was the only daughter of J. A. Leffler, a
Swedish rector, and was born on October 1,1849. From
her mother, the daughter of a minister named Mittag, she
1 Since this biographical introduction was written, we have
become acquainted with a biography of Anna Carlotta Leffler,
written by Madame Laura Marholm in her "Buch der Frauen,"
which contains many erroneous facts and data, and judgments
which prove that the writer has never really known Anna
Carlotta Leffler, but has gathered her information from impure
sources.
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