Sweden's first female working-class author

Around the turn of the 20th century, before women had the right to vote, Maria Sandel, a poor working-class woman, made her book debut in Sweden. Despite the country's strict class society, Sandel was in contact with leading intellectuals of the time and even received artworks from Hjalmar Branting as Christmas gifts. Nina van den Brink is working on a biography about Sandel's remarkable life journey from the slums of Stockholm to becoming a writer.

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