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The Royal Library's Strindberg Collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Margareta Brundin  and
Julia Marshall
Margareta Brundin
Affiliation:
Director of the Strindberg collection and librarian at the Royal Library, Stockholm
Julia Marshall
Affiliation:
Director of the Strindberg collection and librarian at the Royal Library, Stockholm
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August Strindberg was employed at the Royal Library from the end of 1874 to August 1882 – ‘rising from the proletariat class and carrying the legal title of royal secretary and temporary assistant librarian’, as it is said of Johan in Tjänstekvinnans son (The Son of a Servant). Strindberg himself carried this title with pride and had it printed on his visiting card. This was his only more permanent position in the public service and was a qualification which he would refer to many times later in his life. Presumably it would have gladdened him to know that his former place of employment would come to house the largest collection of his manuscripts and letters.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 18 , supplementary S1 , March 1993 , pp. 68 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1993

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