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Julie Fredrika. von Krusenstjerna. 1894-10-09 — 1940-03-10. Author. Agnes von Krusenstjerna was one of the most well-known Swedish authors of the interwar years. Her novels about women’s dreams for the future, their relationships, their sexuality and the limiting conditions they lived under, generated both opposition and support and ...
- October 9, 1894
- March 10, 1940
Agnes von Krusenstjerna. 1894 - 1940. Sweden. Agnes von Krusenstjerna grew up in an aristocratic officer’s family and has been labelled a decadent, trivial writer, but has also been celebrated as a genius on a par with Marcel Proust and D. H. Lawrence. Due to mental illness, which took the form of bouts of hysteria, she was forced to leave ...
Loving Couples. The title of Mai Zetterling’s boldly iconoclastic debut feature—adapted from a cycle of seven novels by the provocative feminist writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna—drips with irony. In 1915, three pregnant women from varying social backgrounds (Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, and Gio Petré) enter a maternity ward.
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Died. March 10, 1940 (aged 45) Stockholm, Sweden. Notable works. Tony series. Agnes von Krusenstjerna (October 9, 1894 – March 10, 1940) was a Swedish writer and noble. She was a controversial writer whose books challenged the moral standards of the day and was the center of a great literary controversy of the freedom of speech.
Loving Couples. Directed by Mai Zetterling • 1964 • Sweden. Starring Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré. The title of Mai Zetterling’s boldly iconoclastic debut feature—adapted from a cycle of seven novels by the provocative feminist writer Agnes von Krusenstjerna—drips with irony. In 1915, three pregnant women from ...
in considering Agnes von Krusenstjerna their twentieth century novelist who is most assured of classic rank in days to come, this is an absurd situation. If America can make Proust in English a profitable venture, in spite of the large volume physically of his work, it can certainly bail out the publisher of Agnes von Krusenstjerna even though ...
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Krusenstjerna was born in Växjö and brought up in Gävle. Niece of Edvard von Krusenstjerna, she was born in to the nobility. She was educated at the teacher's academy of Anna Sandström in Stockholm. She married David Sprengel in 1921. Agnes von Krusenstjerna was on several occasions admitted to mental hospitals.
