biography
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Skram, (Bertha) Amalie
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née Alver
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| female
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| lived:
| (1846/7–1905)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Bergen, SW Norway. After an unhappy childhood, she made a disappointing marriage to an older man, which ended in divorce (1878). She worked as a critic and short-story writer, then in 1884 married a Danish writer, Erik Skram. The pessimism of her writing seems to reflect her early experiences, and much of her work also concerns unhappy marriages. Her tetralogy, Hellemyrsfolket (1887–90, People of Hellemyr), is a Norwegian classic of Naturalism, and outlines the emotional deterioration of a family over four generations. Other works include Constance Ring (1885), and Profesor Hieronymus (1895). |
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