Victoria Benedictsson

She was born as Victoria Maria Bruzelius in Domme, a village in the province of Skåne.

After an illness left her bed-bound, Benedictsson turned to writing, publishing her first collection of stories, Från Skåne (From Scania), in 1884.

[2] She is, together with August Strindberg, regarded as one of the greatest proponents of the Swedish realist writing style.

In her novels she described the inequality of marriage and often debated women's rights issues in her writings.

[3] She also wrote plays, one of which, entitled I Telefon (On Telephone), was highly successful, being performed 27 times at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.