THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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Strindberg, August ___ 1849-1912 ___
Swedish ___ writer
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
August was the third of seven children
born to Carl Strindberg, a shipping magnate, and his religious wife Ulrika,
who died when August was 13. He attended the University of Uppsala for two
years, but thereafter did various jobs including tutoring and accounting
for some local theatres. In 1870, his first play was produced by the Royal
Theater; other, mostly historical, plays followed to mixed reviews. In 1876,
he married Siri Wrangel, who had been an officer's wife but was avidly interested
in the theatre. The couple had three children but the marriage was always
under strain, partly because of Siri's determination to be an actress. Strindberg's
first major success did not come until 1879 with publication of 'The Red
Room', a satirical novel. In 1882 a short story collection, 'The New Kingdom',
so scandalised Stockholm society that Strindberg left Sweden. For much of
the 1880s, his family moved around between France and Switzerland. In 1887,
the couple divorced and Strindberg moved to Denmark. It was also the year,
he had his first major play 'The Father' published and performed (in Copenhagen).
The following year he wrote 'Miss Julie'. Strindberg, not feeling appreciated
in Sweden, moved to central Europe. He married his second wife, the young
Austrian Frieda Uhl, but after travelling in Europe for a year or so, they
too divorced. In 1895, Strindberg appears to have become interested in occultism,
which led to him writing 'The Inferno'. In 1897 he moved back to Sweden,
and embarked on a productive period of his life, writing more plays. In
1901, he married for a third time, to Harriet Bosse, a young actress, but
by the time the couple's daughter was born in 1902, they were living apart.
His occult diary describes this relationship.
One
biography link
DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1900-1908 ___ love/sex self science
psychology
WEB TEXT LINKS
some
extracts
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Strindberg
Museum ___ possibly
SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
From an Occult Diary: Marriage
with Harriet Bosse
November 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information
may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different
names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or
uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown,
or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British'
a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was
compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts
were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if
they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates
and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with
caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are
only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies.
4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges,
and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising.
I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some
variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited
myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their
original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the
titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries. |