Anna Charlier

Anna Charlier

Anna Charlier (25 July 1871, Åby, Gråmanstorp, Sweden - 1942) was a Swedish woman, today remembered as the fiancé of Nils Strindberg, participant in the Northpole-expedition of S. A. Andrée in 1897. Anna and Nils Strindberg got engaged in October 1896, eight months before the expedition left for Svalbard. The expedition was not heard of in the following years and was presumed to have ended in disaster.

Anna emigrated to the USA in 1910 and married there. In 1930, when the remains of the expedition was found, Anna happened to be in Sweden. Unable to stay for the funeral she sent a wreath to her late fiancé. When she died in 1949, she had left specific instructions to her family concerning her remains. Her heart was to be removed from her body, placed in a silver box and buried near the urn that contained Strindberg's ash. All her instructions were followed.

Anna Charlier in fiction

*In the movie Flight of the Eagle, Anna was played by Lotta Larson.
*Anna Charlier is one of the protagonists in the novel "Anna's Book" by George MacBeth (London 1983).

References

(Swedish) Martinsson, Tyrone:"Nils Strindberg, En biografi om fotografen på Andrées polarexpedition", Lund 2006.


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