Calla Curman

Calla Curman around 1880

Calla Curman, née Lundström (1850-1935), was a Swedish writer, salon-holder and feminist. She was the founder of the Nature reserve Stångehuvud (1925), the ladies' club Nya Idun (1885), which was the female equivalent of the all male cultural club Sällskapet Idun, and a board member of a number of societies, notably the Handarbetets vänner in 1880—1904. During the 1880s and 1890s, she hosted De Curmanska mottagningarna (The Curman Receptions), a very known literary salon.

Calla Lundström was born to the rich industrialist Karl Frans Lundström and Sofie Malmberg, and was educated at home by private tuition. In 1868, she married the doctor Adolf Liljenroth (1836-1874) and in 1878, she married professor Karl Peter Curman.

References

• Calla Curman (f. Lundström), urn:sbl:15740, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gurli Linder.), hämtad 2015-09-05.