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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Frans Hodell (1840–1890)

Hodell, Frans Oscar Leonard (ho’del). A popular Swedish dramatist; born in Stockholm, Aug. 13, 1840; died on May 24, 1890. For ten years he was an actor. His original and adapted plays number nearly a hundred. Among the most popular were: ‘Andersson, Petersson, and Lundstrom’ (1866); ‘The Factory Girl’ (1868); ‘The Seamstresses’ (1868); ‘Three Pairs of Shoes’ (1881). From 1870 until his death he was editor of the Sunday Puck, a comic paper.