Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler, duchess of Cajanello (1 October 184921 October 1892), was a

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She was the daughter of the school principal John Olof Leffler and Gustava Wilhelmina Mittag. Her brother was noted mathematician Gösta Mittag-Leffler. Leffler was initially educated privately and then a student at the ''

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'' from the age of thirteen, at that time perhaps the most progressive school open to females in Stockholm. Her first volume of stories appeared in 1869, but the first to which she attached her name was ("From Life," 1882), a series of realistic sketches of the upper circles of Swedish society, followed, by three other collections with the same title. Her earliest plays, ("The Actress," 1873), and its successors, were produced anonymously in Stockholm, but in 1883 her reputation was established by the success of ("True Women") and ("An Angel of Deliverance"). is directed against false femininity, and was well received in

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as well as in Sweden. This cites

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, ''Anne Charlotte Leffler'' (Stockholm, 1893). Leffler had married G. Edgren in 1872, but about 1884 she was separated from her husband, who did not share her advanced views. She spent some time in England, and in 1885 produced her ("How one does good"), followed in 1888 by ("The Struggle for Happiness"), with which she was helped by

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. Another volume of the series appeared in 1889, and ("Domestic Happiness," 1891) was produced in the year after her second marriage (to the Italian mathematician, Pasquale del Pezzo, duke of Cajanello). She was also active within the women's movement. Leffler was an early member of the women's association

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, founded in 1885, and was one of its committee members. At its first meeting, she spoke in favour of the

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and raised the issue of dress reform in Sweden, which resulted in the foundation of the

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. Her dramatic method forms a connecting link between Ibsen and

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, and its masculine directness, freedom from prejudice and frankness won her work great esteem in Sweden. Her last book was a biography (1892) of her friend

, by way of introduction to Sonya's autobiography. An English translation (1895) by Annie de Furuhjelm and A. M. Clive Bayley contains a biographical note on Fräu Edgren-Leffler by

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, based on private sources. Leffler died in 1892 of complications from

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Leffler, Anne Charlotte 1849 births 1892 deaths Swedish women dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Swedish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Swedish women writers Socialist feminists Members of Nya Idun

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