Sophie Margareta Zelow von Knorring, (28 September 1797 - 13 February 1848), was a Swedish novelist and noble. She is regarded as a pioneer of the realistic novel in Sweden. Most of her novels are romantic love stories in an aristocratic environment.

Biography

She was born as Sophie Margareta Zelow on 28 September 1797. She married colonel

Colonel

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 Baron

Baron

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 Sebastian von Knorring. Her debut Cousinerna (The cousins) treats the subject of love opposite duty. She died on 13 February 1848.

Legacy

Alongside Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

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, August Blanche

August Blanche

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, Fredrika Bremer

Fredrika Bremer

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 and Emilie Flygare-Carlén

Emilie Flygare-Carlén

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, Sophie von Knorring dominated the Swedish realistic literature in the 1830s and 1840s.

Works

• Cousinerna (1834) (The cousins)
• Illusionerna (1836) (The Illusions)
• Skizzer. Första samlingen (1841) (Sketches. First collection)
• Förhoppningar (1843) (Expectations)
• Torparen och hans omgifning (1843) (The crofter and his inviromnent)
• Skizzer. Andra samlingen (1845) (Sketches. Second collection)
• Bref till hemmet, under en sommarresa 1846 (1847) (Letters home, during a summer journey)