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Public Activity 95
The death of Sonja Kowalewsky, who, in
later years, after Anne Charlotte Leffler had
left Stockholm, had attached herself to Ellen
Key with tenderer intimacy, was felt severely
by the latter. Together with a friend she
had nursed Sonja Kowalewsky during her
last illness, and immediately upon her demise
she wrote her obituary which, though short,
was rich in content and caused us in the
north to realise what she had been.
Of Sonja Kowalewsky's life-work we were,
of course, not ignorant. What science and
literature lost through her death was well
known, and the daily press, national and
foreign, informed us thereof. But those who
considered womanly qualities of prime im.-
portance now learned also that the world
had lost a true woman, one who "though she
was the most celebrated woman-scientist of
the century, and perhaps of all time, counted
neither science, literature, nor fame as the
central thing in life. For her, the heart was
the fountain of life.
This character sketch was later completed
by a fuller mention and genial comprehension
of Sonja Kowalewsky's remarkable and com-
plex personality and strange life in the bio-
graphy of Anne Charlotte Leffler which Ellen
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