author
Lina Hug
Best known for co-authoring a lively late-19th-century history of Switzerland, this writer helped bring the country’s story to English-speaking readers. Her work blends broad history with a clear, accessible narrative style.
1 Audiobook
The Story of Switzerland
by Lina Hug, Richard Stead
About the author
Lina Hug is known from surviving book records as the co-author, with Richard Stead, of The Story of Switzerland, published in 1890, and Switzerland, published in 1891. Those books were issued by G. P. Putnam’s Sons and T. Fisher Unwin, and they remain the main confirmed traces of her published work.
Because reliable biographical information about her is scarce in the sources available here, not much can be said with confidence about her life beyond her authorship. What does stand out is her role in presenting Swiss history to an English-language audience in a form that was meant to be informative, readable, and engaging.
Readers coming to her today will likely know her through The Story of Switzerland, a historical survey that has continued to circulate in digital libraries long after its original publication.