Valborg Olander
Valborg Olander (Uddeholm Manor, Värmland 14 May 1861 – 27 February 1943), was a Swedish teacher, politician and suffragette. She is known for her friendship with Selma Lagerlöf.
Life and career
Valborg Olander was born as one of five children to the medical doctor Gustaf Achilles and Eva Charlotta Munktell. After the death of her father when she was twelve, her mother supported the family by opening a fashion shop in Ulricehamn.
Olander was educated at a girls' school in
From 1907 to 1912, Olander was the vice chairman of the committee running the Seminarteacher's society; she was a board member of the Falun public libraries; in 1909–1910 a member of the school council and was appointed by the city council to the board of the Academy for Girls in Falun, which she was in 1912–1918. In 1909, women became eligible to stand for election to municipal councils, and at the 1910 election, Valborg Olander was elected to the Falun city council for the
Valborg Olander was an acquaintance of the author Selma Lagerlöf, with whom she eventually came to develop a love relationship.[1] She is also thought to have affected the work of Selma Lagerlöf in her capacity of literary adviser.[2]
In popular culture
The relationship between Selma Lagerlöf, Valborg Olander and Olander's rival, the writer Sophie Elkan, was portrayed in Selma, a TV series written by Åsa Lantz in 2008, with Helena Bergström as Selma Lagerlöf, Ingela Olsson as Valborg Olander and Alexandra Rapaport as Sophie Elkan.
References
- ^ Toijer-Nilsson, Ying (2006). En riktig författarhustru: Selma Lagerlöf skriver till Valborg Olander (A Proper Writer's wife: Selma Lagerlöf to Valborg Olander). Bonnier
- ^ Toijer-Nilsson, Ying (2006). En riktig författarhustru: Selma Lagerlöf skriver till Valborg Olander (A Proper Writer's wife: Selma Lagerlöf to Valborg Olander). Bonnier
Additional sources
- Dagny, nr 50, 1910
- Toijer-Nilsson, Ying (2006). En riktig författarhustru: Selma Lagerlöf skriver till Valborg Olander (A Proper Writer's wife: Selma Lagerlöf to Valborg Olander). Bonnier
- Valborg H C Olander, urn:sbl:7676, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Eva Andersson), hämtad 2015-12-11.
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