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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
311
her intimacy with that gifted woman, and therefore we
need not touch on the subject here.
At the beginning of 1888 she went to Africa with her
brother, Professor Mittag-Leffler, and bis wife, Signe, to
attend the Mathematical Congress in Algiers. During this
journey, while returning through Italy, she met, for the
first time, with a mathematician, professor at the Naples
University, who had long been in correspondence with her
brother.
This was Signor Pasquale del Pezzo, the Duke of
Cajanello. Their acquaintance ripened into a true and tender
love, which, after the divorce of Anna Carlotta, and the
overcoming of many difficulties made by the Duke’s family,
who objected to his future wife as a Protestant, was finally
crowned by a happy marriage, which was celebrated in
Rome, in May, 1890.
Previously to this, in 1889, Anna Carlotta published a
new collection of tales also under the common title of
" From Life." The Duke and Duchess of Cajanello, after
their marriage, spent a large portion of the year at
Djursholm, near Stockholm.
The now happy woman shortly published a romance,
" Womanliness and Erotics," inspired by the new
sentiments and sensations which crowded upon her, and also a
comedy called " This Love !"
This romance was much talked of, and was criticized with
more than usual acrimony. The author herself considered
it the most complete and vivid manifestation of her own
personality. The first part had been written seven years
previously, and, at one point of the heroine’s destiny, there
arose a question to which the writer at that time knew no
answer. She felt that there was missing the real
explanation of all the psychological evolutions in her heroine — that
Alie who was awaiting the full development of her
personality from the love that must finally awaken and
subjugate her. But how, and under what circumstances, would
Alie love? — she "who was so much convinced that the
reality could never afford her anything but delusions that
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