- Anna Charlier
Anna Charlier (25 July 1871,
Åby ,Gråmanstorp ,Sweden - 1942) was a Swedish woman, today remembered as thefiancé ofNils Strindberg , participant in the Northpole-expedition of S. A. Andrée in 1897. Anna andNils Strindberg got engaged in October 1896, eight months before the expedition left forSvalbard . 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 awreath 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 byLotta Larson .
*Anna Charlier is one of the protagonists in the novel "Anna's Book " byGeorge MacBeth (London 1983).References
(Swedish) Martinsson, Tyrone:"Nils Strindberg, En biografi om fotografen på Andrées polarexpedition", Lund 2006.
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