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Edgeworth's _Memories_, edited by C.S. Edgeworth, were first published
in English (London, 1815), and a French translation (really the
letters and some miscellaneous notes, &c.) was published in Paris in
1816. A translation of the _Lettres de l'abbé Edgeworth avec des
mémoires sur sa vie_ was published by Madame Elizabeth de Bow in Paris
in 1818, and _Letters from the Abbé Edgeworth to his Friends, with
Memoirs of his Life_, edited by T.B. England, in London in 1818. See
J.B.A. Hanet-Cléry, _Journal de ce qui s'est passé, &c._ (Paris,
1825); A.H. du D. de Beauchesne, _Vie de Madame Elisabeth_ (Paris,
1869); J.C.D. de Lacretelle, _Précis historique de la Révolution
française_ (Paris, 1801-1806).
EDGREN-LEFFLER, ANNE CHARLOTTE, duchess of Cajanello (1849-1892),
Swedish author, daughter of the mathematician Prof. C.O. Leffler, was
born on the 1st of October 1849. Her first volume of stories appeared in
1869, but the first to which she attached her name was _Ur Lifvet_
("From Life," 1882), a series of realistic sketches of the upper circles
of Swedish society, followed by three other collections with the same
title. Her earliest plays, _Skådespelerskan_ ("The Actress," 1873), and
its successors, were produced anonymously in Stockholm, but in 1883 her
reputation was established by the success of _Sanna Kvinnor_ ("True
Women"), and _En Räddande engel_ ("An Angel of Deliverance"). _Sanna
Kvinnor_ is directed against false femininity, and was well received in
Germany as well as in Sweden. Anne Leffler had married in 1872 G.
Edgren, but about 1884 she was separated from her husband, who did not
share her advanced views. She spent some time in England, and in 1885
produced her _Hur man gör godt_ ("How men do good"), followed in 1888 by
_Kampen för lyckan_ ("The Struggle for Happiness"), in which she had the
help of Sophie Kovalevsky. Another volume of the _Ur Lisvet_ series
appeared in 1889; and _Familjelycka_ ("Domestic Happiness," 1891) was
produced in the year after her second marriage, with the Italian
mathematician, Pasquale del Pezzo, duca di Cajanello. She died at Naples
on the 21st of October 1892. Her dramatic method forms a connecting link
between Ibsen and Strindberg, and its masculine directness, freedom from
prejudice, and frankness gave her work a high estimation in Sweden. Her
last book was a biography (1892) of her friend Sophie (Sonya)
Kovalevsky, by way of introduction to Sonya's autobiography. An English
translation (1895) by A. de Furnhjelm and A.M. Clive Bayley contains a
biographical note on Fru Edgren-Leffler by Lily Wolffsohn, based on
private sources.
See also Ellen Key, _Anne Charlotte Leffler_ (Stockholm, 1893).
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