Amalie Skram

Amalie Skram was born in Bergen on 22 August 1846. Her father, a ruined small tradesman, left for America. Married at eighteen, according to Nordic Women's Literature, to Captain August Müller, and mother of two sons, she divorced after a severe depression and settled in Kristiania. In 1884, she married the Danish writer Erik Skram and followed him to Copenhagen. Committed to an asylum in 1894-1895, she drew from that experience two novels that denounce asylums. She died in Copenhagen on 15 March 1905.

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• NovelHellemyrsfolketAmalie Skram · 1898not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain