Maria Rieck-Müller

Born in Sundsvall on 8 March 1863, Maria Rieck-Müller was the daughter of the merchant and ship-owner August Sundberg and Catharina Maria Gröndahl. She married the railway engineer and timber-floating manager Jacob Rieck-Müller in 1885, and the family moved around northern Sweden with his work.

Those years in Norrland shaped her writing. She became a journalist and author, and her books are commonly linked with the Norrland romantic tradition. Sources also note that during the family’s time in Vännäs she founded the magazine Nordan, showing how active she was not only as a writer of books but also in literary and journalistic life.

She is especially remembered for writing about people, places, and moods of northern Sweden with warmth and detail. Among the works associated with her are Fjällbyfolk: Bilder från öfre Norrland and Medelpad och Ångermanland. She died in Stockholm on 4 December 1955.