Sigrid Lidströmer

Sigrid Lidströmer (1866–1942), granddaughter of the architect Fredrik August Lidströmer, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator.^[1] She wrote articles in the Swedish literary magazine Idun,^[2][3] wrote and translated songs,^[4] novels, short stories,^[5] polemical articles,^[6] and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish,^[7] Norwegian, Danish,^[4] German, French and English.

Sigrid Lidströmer (1866-1942), portrayed by Christine Sundberg (Swedish painter) 1837 - 1892, oil on panel, signed and dated 1883.

She corresponded^[8] with Oscar Wilde and translated his The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Swedish.^[9]

Her main interests were women's rights,^[10] education, literary debate and general human rights.^[11]