Mathilda Malling
Encyclopedia
Ingrid Mathilda Malling was a Swedish novelist born January 20, 1864 on Oskar Farm in southern Sweden
and died in 1942. Daughter of a Danish cargo owner, she graduated in Stockholm 1883 and was married in 1890 to merchant Peter Malling in Copenhagen
.
Stella Kleve. Her contemporaries took note of her sensually colored depictions of young women, but posterity now considers her decadent late-naturalistic depiction of women as the female counterpart of the male breakthrough novels of this time. She had early contact with Ola Hanson
who frequently corresponded with her and also courted and proposed to her. Hansen portrayed, after a difficult break-up with Malling, as a woman of the future. The young poets and the students Emil Kleen and Albert Sahlin wanted to do a small decandent publication (which never came out) in the late 1880s, but failed to persuade her.
was famously connected with her.
, in his pioneering study of adolescence
, as a parallel to the famously frank (and accusedly egotistic) authors Marie Bashkirtseff
, Hilma Angered Strandberg
, and Mary MacLane
.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
and died in 1942. Daughter of a Danish cargo owner, she graduated in Stockholm 1883 and was married in 1890 to merchant Peter Malling in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
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Controversial Early Works
Malling debuted in 1885 with the novel, Berta Funcke, followed in 1888 by the novel Alice Brandt, both published under the pseudonymPseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Stella Kleve. Her contemporaries took note of her sensually colored depictions of young women, but posterity now considers her decadent late-naturalistic depiction of women as the female counterpart of the male breakthrough novels of this time. She had early contact with Ola Hanson
Ola hanson
Ola Hanson was a Swedish-American missionary who worked for the Kachin people in Burma....
who frequently corresponded with her and also courted and proposed to her. Hansen portrayed, after a difficult break-up with Malling, as a woman of the future. The young poets and the students Emil Kleen and Albert Sahlin wanted to do a small decandent publication (which never came out) in the late 1880s, but failed to persuade her.
Later Works
After a long silence she resumed her writing, but in a very different character, with a novel about the First Consul), which was a huge success thanks to her skillful manipulation of historical material. Her work became hailed as well-done historically and even safe for family reading and included Madam Governor of Paris (1895, 2nd ed 1898), Eremitageidyllen (1896), Shooting on Munkeboda (1897), the play Lady Leonora (1897), Doña Ysabel (1898), Ladies in Markby (1901), Daybreak (1902), Nina (1903), Little Marica and Her Husband (1904), Lady Elizabeth Percy (1905), Her Hero (1906), Mary Stuart (1907), Nina's Honeymoon (1908), Karl Skytles wife (1909), Sisters of Ribershus (1910) and The White House And Red House (1911). The later work shows lush, but little original, storytelling imagination and a lot of free floating. The historical novels found a large readership in the early 1900s, but her breakthrough novel Berta Funcke still arouses interest.European Recognition
Malling's first two novels were heatedly discussed. Swedish feminist Ellen KeyEllen Key
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement...
was famously connected with her.
American Recognition
Malling's first novel was cited by prominent American psychologist G. Stanley HallG. Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory...
, in his pioneering study of adolescence
Adolescence
Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development generally occurring between puberty and legal adulthood , but largely characterized as beginning and ending with the teenage stage...
, as a parallel to the famously frank (and accusedly egotistic) authors Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff
Marie Bashkirtseff was a Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor....
, Hilma Angered Strandberg
Hilma Angered Strandberg
Elisabet Kristina Hilma Angered Strandberg, born June 10, 1855 in Stockholm, died January 23, 1927 in Meran, was a Swedish writer. She mostly wrote udner the name Hilma Strandberg of the pseudonym Lilian.-Life:...
, and Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane
Mary MacLane was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing...
.