Background
She was the daughter of Justice and member of the Swedish Academy Carl Gustaf beach Berg (1825–1874) and his wife Eva Helleday (1830–1869).
She was the daughter of Justice and member of the Swedish Academy Carl Gustaf beach Berg (1825–1874) and his wife Eva Helleday (1830–1869).
She attended an ordinary school in Stockholm, but later took private lessons with EM Rappe in Småland. In 1876 she completed training as a telegraph operator and worked as such from 1883 to 1888 in Fjällbacka.
She mostly wrote under the name Hilma Strandberg of the pseudonym Lilian. During that time she wrote alleged correspondence to a newspaper at which she was later employed. At the World Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, she was responsible for presenting a Swedish textile company"s work to the world, during which time she continued her work as a newspaper correspondent.
From 1904 to 1914 she undertook long study trips to the Switzerland and from Italy, continuing to report back to Swedish newspapers and magazines.
Strandberg"s work was cited by prominent American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, in his pioneering study of adolescence, as a parallel to the famously frank (and allegedly egotistic) female writers Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary MacLane, and Mathilda Malling. Prizes and