Sigrid Lidströmer

Sigrid Lidströmer (1866-1942), grand daughter of the architect Fredrik August Lidströmer, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator. ["Sveriges Periodiska Litteratur" (Swedish Periodical Literature), vol. 3, pp. 542-590] She wrote articles in the Swedish literary gazette "Idun," ["Idun", literary magazine, Swedish Royal Library, Stockholm, 1910-1930.] ["Sällskapet Iduns protokollsböcker" (Protocol Books of the Idun Society), Deposition No. 218, "Handskriftssektionen" (Manuscript Section), Swedish Royal Library, Stockholm.] wrote and translated songs,Lennart Reimer's Music Archives, Part of the Swedish State Musicological Archives, Stockholm] novels, short stories, ["The Mörner Archive", AL, CB, Örebro University Library, Örebro, Bernhard Lundstedt] polemical articles, ["Biblioteksbladet" (14th-20th volumes), Gothenburg University Library, Gothenburg, Sweden] and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish, ["Finsk Tidskrift" (Finnish Newspaper), journal (1912-1936), Helsinki, Finland ] Norwegian, Danish, German, French and English.

She corresponded ["Epistola: in carcere et vinculis - Letters from the Prison Time" - (Brev från fängelsetiden), translation into Swedish by Carl Björkman, 1920, 1926, 1927] with Oscar Wilde and was the first to translate his The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Swedish. [Oscar Wilde, "Intentions", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "De profundis", translation into Swedish by Sigrid Lidströmer, Swedish Title: "Readingballaden - Skrifter av Oscar Wilde", 1920, 1926, 1927. ISSN 99-1294739-8]

Her main interests were women's rights, ["Dagny" (Magazine for Womens movement), Gothenburg University Library, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1912-1930.] education, literary debate and general human rights. ["Ord och Bild" (Word and Picture), Magazine (12th-21st volumes)]

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