| 词条 | Ottilie A. Liljencrantz |
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Early lifeOttilie 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 Laurentius Petri.[2] Among her teachers was drama teacher Anna Morgan, who remembered Liljencrantz as "an attractive young woman with a mind unusually endowed. She had a vivid fancy and a true sense of proportion, she seemed to have been set apart for a career in literature".[3] CareerWhen she was still a teenager, she wrote plays and produced them with the help of children in her neighborhood. One such drama, "In Fairyland" (1895), involved over 100 children when it was mounted as a benefit for the Home for Destitute Crippled Children.[4] Books by Liljencrantz included The Scrape that Jack Built (1897, a children's book), The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days (1902, a novel about Leif Erikson),[5] The Ward of King Canute (1903), The Vinland Champions (1904), Randvar the Songsmith: A Tale of Norumbega (1906, a novel with a werewolf theme),[6] and A Viking's Love and Other Tales of the North (1911, a collection of short stories published posthumously). Troy Kinney and Margaret West Kinney illustrated three of Liljencrantz's books. Her novel The Thrall of Leif the Lucky was adapted for a silent film, The Viking (1928).[7] Personal lifeOttilie A. Liljencrantz died after a surgery to treat cancer in 1910, aged 34 years, in Chicago.[8][9] References1. ^Ernst W. Olson, [https://books.google.com/books?id=yJUQAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA840&dq=Ottilie%20A.%20Liljencrantz&pg=PA840#v=onepage&q=Ottilie%20A.%20Liljencrantz&f=false History of the Swedes of Illinois] (Engberg-Holmberg Publishing 1908): 840. 2. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14537530/ottilie_liljencrantz_1906/ "Miss Ottilie Liljencrantz"] Indianapolis News (March 24, 1906): 7. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 3. ^Anna Morgan, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BJMUAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ottilie%20A.%20Liljencrantz&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q=Ottilie%20A.%20Liljencrantz&f=false My Chicago] (R. F. Seymour 1918): 52-54. 4. ^Burr Merrill, [https://search-proquest-com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/news/docview/174940457/EFC97DF0D69343B2PQ/4 "Turned to Fairies and Goblins"] Chicago Daily Tribune (January 20, 1895): 3. 5. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/14537440/ottilie_liljencrantz_1902/ "Side Lights on Literature"] Brooklyn Daily Eagle (April 9, 1902): 12. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 6. ^C. H. Gaines, "Harper's Bookshelf" Harper's Magazine (May 1906). 7. ^Kevin J. Harty, ed., The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages (McFarland 2011). {{ISBN|9780786460441}} 8. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=jUqlGgurM-AC&dq=Ottilie%20Liljencrantz&pg=RA2-PA17#v=onepage&q=Ottilie%20Liljencrantz&f=false "Ottilie Liljencrantz"] The American Scandinavian (1910): 17. 9. ^[https://search-proquest-com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/news/docview/173495500/EFC97DF0D69343B2PQ/2 "Chicago Authoress is Dead"] Chicago Daily Tribune (October 9, 1910): 7. External links
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