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Evy Fogelberg
A Finnish nurse and writer, she is best remembered for books about the prison reformer Mathilda Wrede. Her work blends biography with social concern, giving readers a close look at lives shaped by hardship, faith, and reform.
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Vankien ystävä: Piirteitä Mathilda Wreden elämästä ja toiminnasta
by Evy Fogelberg
About the author
Born Eva Johanna Fogelberg, she was a Finnish nurse and writer associated with Swedish-language literary culture in Finland. Reliable catalog and author-reference sources identify her as living from 1871 to 1967.
Fogelberg is chiefly known for writing about Mathilda Wrede, the well-known Finnish prison reformer and philanthropist. Her books include Fångarnas vän: drag ur Mathilda Wredes liv och verksamhet and Bland fångar och fria: nya drag ur Mathilda Wredes liv och verksamhet, works that show her interest in prison life, compassion, and moral reform.
Biographical information about her is fairly limited online, but the surviving record suggests a writer whose nonfiction was closely tied to care work and social questions. Her archive is noted in the manuscript collections of Åbo Akademi, which points to an enduring place in Finnish literary and historical memory.