First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature
Autograph letter signed ("Selma Lagerlöf").
Mårbacka, Sunne [Värmland, Sweden]: 11 February 1926.
Price: $500.00
About the item
3 pp. In Swedish. 12mo. First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Bifolium of lined stationery. Old Folds. Fine.
Item #316259
A three page letter in Swedish, making mention of Princess Hildegard of Bavaria as well as her German publisher Albert Langen, who published her novel Charlotte Löwensköld in the year the letter is dated. Lagerlöf was first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909) as well as the first woman to be admitted to the Swedish Academy (1914).
