Helena Nyblom & John Bauer

'Agneta & the Sea King' - Agneta och Sjökungen
by Helena Nyblom (1843-1926)
illustrated by John Bauer (1882-1918)
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Helena Nyblom (1843-1926) was a Danish-Swedish
children's story author. She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark,
daughter to the Danish painter Jørgen Roed. Her brother was the
painter Holger Roed. In September 1864 she married the Swedish
academic Carl Rupert Nyblom, Associate Professor of Aesthetics at
Uppsala University, and at the end of the month the newly-weds
took a steamer to Uppsala. Her first collection of poems, written
in Danish, came out in 1881. It attracted attention not just
in Denmark, but also in Sweden, where it was praised
by the poet Carl Snoilsky. She published her first
fairy tales in 1897, when she was 54 years old.
In all she wrote more than 80 fairy tales, in
which she mixed Swedish folklore, ancient
myths and romantic motifs.

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