Jeanna Oterdahl

{{Short description|Swedish educator, author and poet}}

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| birth_place = Uddevalla, Sweden

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| occupation = Writer, educator, song lyricist

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Jeanna Louise Oterdahl (9 August 1879, in Uddevalla, Sweden – 25 July 1965) was a Swedish educator, author and poet.

She was educated at the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm.

References

  • Jeanna Oterdahl. Liv och verk. Toijer-Nilsson, Ying, Rabén & Sjögren, 1996.
  • Att bryta egen väg. Jeanna Oterdahl i föredrag och författarskap. Stolt, Gunvor, diss. Litteraturvetenskapliga inst. Uppsala universitet, 2002.
  • Hon var resande i bildning. Artikel i SvD 16 April 2002, Toijer-Nilsson, Ying.

Further reading