Sten Bodvar Liljegren (8 May 1885 – 30 December 1984) was a Swedish Anglist. He was born in

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, Sweden. Liljegren was Professor of English Philology at the

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between 1926 and 1930. He became a professor at

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in New York and was appointed in 1931 as professor in Leipzig. He was appointed in 1939 as professor of English at the

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. He became emeritus in 1951. Liljegren was member of the Faculty of Science Society in Lund, Faculty of Science Society in Uppsala and the Society of Sciences in Lund. In 1924 he founded the journal ''Litteris''. Liljegren in his book ''Bulwer-Lytton's Novels and Isis Unveiled'' (1957) wrote that a main source for

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's Theosophical ideas was

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and ''

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'' was heavily influenced by

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (; 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secr ...

's novels.Bader, A. L. (1958). ''Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle by Katherine H. Porter; Bulwer-Lytton's Novels and "Isis Unveiled" by S. B. Liljegren''. ''

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''. Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 183-184.

Publications

*''Studies on the Origin and Early Tradition of English Utopian Fiction'' (1973) *''The Parentage of Sherlock Holmes'' (1971) *''Irish Studies in Sweden'' (1961) *''Bulwer-Lytton's Novels and Isis Unveiled'' (1957) *''The English Sources of Goethe's Gretchen Tragedy: A Study on the Life and Fate of Literary Motives'' (1937) *''Studies in Milton'' (1918)

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