Sigrid

Lidströmer Lidströmer is a Swedish noble family, originating from the village of Liden, Medelpad, Sweden. Knighted 3 October 1800 by King Gustav IV Adolf in Stockholm Palace, Sweden. Jonas Lidströmer (1755–1808) was nobilised on the grounds of his great ...

(1866–1942), granddaughter of the architect

Fredrik August Lidströmer Fredrik August Lidströmer (1787–1856) was the son of Jonas Lidströmer. He was a Swedish architect, artist and marine officer, as well as Stockholm's city architect. Raised in the naval city of Karlskrona, he came to Stockholm to help his fat ...

, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator. She wrote articles in the Swedish literary magazine '' Idun,'' wrote and translated songs,Lennart Reimer's Music Archives, Part of the Swedish State Musicological Archives, Stockholm novels, short stories, polemical articles, and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French and English. She corresponded with

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

and translated his

The Ballad of Reading Gaol ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol () on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with othe ...

into Swedish. Her main interests were women's rights, education, literary debate and general human rights.''Ord och Bild'' (Word and Picture), Magazine (12th-21st volumes)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lidstromer, Sigrid 1866 births 1942 deaths Swedish translators Swedish women writers Translators to Swedish