Velma Swanston Howard

Velma Swanston Howard (January 24, 1868 She attended schools in Chicago, and graduated from the Boston School of Oratory in 1888.

Career Howard translated many works by Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf into English, including Christ Legends (1908), The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1910), Further Adventures of Nils (1911), The Legend of the Sacred Image (1914), The Emperor of Portugallia (1916), Jerusalem: A Novel (1916), The Holy City: Jerusalem II (1918), Gösta Berling's Saga (1918), Mȧrbacka (1925), and Charlotte Löwensköld (1927).

She also translated works by dramatist August Strindberg, including Lucky Pehr: A Drama in Five Acts and Easter: A Play in Three Acts. and played Mary Baker Eddy in a New York City suffrage pageant in 1911.

Personal life Swanston married Charles Howard. Her husband died in 1917, and she died in 1937, at the age of 69, in New York City, about a month after she suffered a stroke.