Klara Johanson

Klara Elisabeth Johanson (6 October 1875 – 8 October 1948) was a Swedish literary critic and essayist. She was unusually well educated for a woman in her city. She initially wrote for journals and newspapers before she and her partner spent five years curating the correspondence of Fredrika Bremer. She is known for introducing American writers in parallel to publishing her own books.

Biography Klara Johanson was born in 1875 in Halmstad to Alexander Johanson, a milliner and furrier, and Anna Christina Johanson. She was the first woman from Halmstad to sit the upper secondary school final examinations, passing in 1894. She went on to study a Master of Arts in humanities at Uppsala University and graduated in 1897. She then moved to Stockholm and became a sub-editor for Dagny, the journal of the women's rights organisation the Fredrika Bremer Association. In 1901 she left Dagny to write for Stockholms Dagblad, contributing literary criticism under her own name and humorous stories under the name Huck Leber. published the letters of Fredrika Bremer in four volumes, titled Fredrika Bremers brev, between 1915 and 1920. Johanson would later write a book regarding her friend, Fridman. published three collections of Johanson's writing: K. J. själv (1952, childhood memories), Brev (1953, letters) and Kritik (1957, criticism).