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Laura Marholm
1854–1928
A Baltic-German writer, critic, and biographer, she explored women's inner lives and public roles at a time when those questions were stirring debate across Europe. Her work moved between fiction, essays, and portraits of notable women, giving her a distinctive place in fin-de-siècle literary culture.
2 Audiobooks
We Women and Our Authors
by Laura Marholm
Six modern women: Psychological sketches
by Laura Marholm
About the author
Born in Riga in 1854 as Laura Mohr, she became known as Laura Marholm and built a career as a German-language writer, essayist, and literary critic. She wrote novels, plays, and biographies, and is especially remembered for literary criticism and for books about women and their lives.
Her interests reached across borders. She spent time in Scandinavian literary circles, engaged with major cultural debates of her era, and after marrying the Swedish writer Ola Hansson in 1890, she was also known as Laura Marholm-Hansson. Her writing often focused on psychology, marriage, and the pressures placed on women in modern society.
Marholm died in 1928. Though not as widely read today as some of her contemporaries, she remains an interesting figure for readers curious about late nineteenth-century literature, early feminist debates, and the lively exchange of ideas between the Baltic region, Germany, and Scandinavia.