Sigrid Lidströmer

Lidströmer

Lidströmer is a Swedish noble family, originating from the village of Liden, Medelpad, Sweden. Knighted 3 October 1800 by King Gustav IV Adolf in the cathedral of Linköping, Sweden...

(1866-1942), grand daughter of the architect Fredrik August Lidströmer

Fredrik August Lidströmer

Fredrik August Lidströmer , son of Jonas Lidströmer. Swedish architect, artist and marine officer and Stockholm's City architect. Grown up in the naval city of Karlskrona and came to Stockholm to help his father with construction of the Obelisk at Slottsbacken adjacent to the royal palace, and then...

, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator. She wrote articles in the Swedish literary gazette Idun, wrote and translated songs, novels, short stories, polemical articles, and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French and English.

She corresponded with Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 and was the first to translate his The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard...

into Swedish.

Her main interests were women's rights, education, literary debate and general human rights.