Background
Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, daughter to the Danish painter Jørgen Roed.
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Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, daughter to the Danish painter Jørgen Roed.
She is perhaps most remembered for The Swan Suit. She died in Stockholm. Her brother was the painter Holger Roed.
Helena"s first writings were poems and short stories.
Helena did not think highly of the stories, which she regarded as potboilers. (The Nybloms had six children and needed the money) Innately musical, she put more of herself into her poems, many of which were later set to music by Emil Sjögren and other composers.
Her first collection of poems, written in Danish, came out in 1881. lieutenant attracted attention not just in Denmark, but also in Sweden, where it was praised by the poet Carl Snoilsky.
She published her first fairy tales in 1897, when she was 54 years old.
In all she wrote more than 80 fairy tales, in which she mixed Swedish folklore, ancient myths and romantic motifs. Many of her tales contain clear feminist messages. Besides publishing her own collections, she also contributed to the Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual Among Gnomes and Trolls, where many of her tales were illustrated by John Bauer.
The conversion received great attention in the media and she endured much criticism in her circle of friends to have fallen for Rome.
Her husband, himself not a Catholic, however, took her publicly in defense of the Catholic minority in Stockholm was proud of the famous convert. Helena Nyblom is buried in Uppsala Old Cemetery.
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