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Born August 22, 1860 • Sweden
Died February 8, 1911 (aged 50) • Stockholm • Sweden

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Swedish author
Levertin, oil painting by C.O. Larsson, 1906; in the Bonniers' Collection, Stockholm
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Swedish poet and scholar
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Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht
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Anna Maria Lenngren
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