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Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina), 18761910.
Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, from publications in (top) and
Born | ()January 19, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Died | October 7, () (aged 34) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Ottilie Adelina Liljencrantz (January 19, – October 7, ) was an American writer of Norse-themed historical novels.[1]
Early life
Ottilie Adelina Liljencrantz was born in Chicago,Illinois, the daughter of Gustave Adolph Mathias Liljencrantz, a civil engineer, and Adelina Charlotte Hall Liljencrantz.
Her father was born in Sweden. "I wish that I could trace my descent to some renowned Viking," she confided in an interview, "and I will not relinquish the pleasant belief that I have some valiant ancestor on Valhalla's benches," but history only confirmed her as a descendant of sixteenth-century Swedish clergyman LaurentiusPetri.[2] Among her teachers was drama teacher AnnaMorgan, who remembered Liljencrantz as "an attractive young woman with a mind unusually endowed