Ingeborg Maria Sick

After devoting many years to supporting philanthropic initiatives for the poor and needy, from her forties she concentrated on writing, publishing some 30 novels as well as poetry and biographies.

Fangernes Ven (Friend of the Prisones, 1921), a biography of the Swedish-Finnish philanthropist Mathilda Wrede, is among her most important works.

[1] Financially independent and deeply religious, she spent her early years nursing the needy in the poorer quarters of Copenhagen.

[1][2] Helligt Ægteskab (1903) presents the romances of two sisters, a priest's wife who has a happy marriage and a baroness who falls in love with an artist before returning to her husband.

Fangernes Ven (Friend of the Prisones, 1921) was inspired by Evy Fogelberg's biographies of the Swedish-Finnish philanthropist Mathilda Wrede while Pigen fra Danmark (The Girl from Denmark), which appeared in four parts until 1945, covers the life of the Danish missionary Karen Jeppe, especially her times in Armenia.