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

Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817)

Lenngren, Anna Maria (len’gren). A Swedish poetess; born at Stockholm, June 18, 1754; died there, March 8, 1817. She received from her father, Prof. Malmstedt, a very thorough education. Her poems were originally contributed to the Stockholmsposten, of which her husband was editor: they were collected after her death and published under the title of ‘Essays in Poesy’ (1819). They consist of humorous satires or epigrams, amusing travesties and idyllic sketches.