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Sara Pfeiffer
1829–1913
A popular Swedish novelist of the 19th century, she wrote lively stories of everyday life as well as historical fiction. Publishing under the pen name Sylvia, she became a familiar name to readers in Sweden and beyond.
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About the author
Born in Lund in 1829, Sara Pfeiffer was a Swedish writer who later grew up partly in Gothenburg. She married the agriculturalist and member of parliament Gustaf Pfeiffer in 1857, and the couple spent many years at a manor in Småland before later living in Stockholm.
She is best remembered as a widely read entertainment writer who published both domestic fiction and historical novels. She often wrote under the pseudonym Sylvia, and her books reached a large readership in the late 1800s.
Pfeiffer died in 1913. Though not always placed among the most canonical writers of her time, she was an important popular author whose work gives a vivid sense of the tastes, interests, and reading culture of 19th-century Sweden.