Portrait of Clara Tschudi
Photo: Gustav Borgen · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Clara Tschudi

Norwegian writer (1856-1945)

Born
September 9, 1856, Tønsberg
Died
November 10, 1945
Nationality
Norway
Occupation
Writer and biographer
Notable works
Elisabeth: keiserinde af Østerrige og dronning af Ungarn · Augusta: tysk keiserinde og dronning af Preussen · Dronning Hortense: Napoleon den førstes datter, Napoleon den tredies moder · Luise, storhertuginde av Baden · Eugénie: Frankriges sidste keiserinde · Napoléons moder (Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte) · Goethes moder · Kvindebevægelsen: dens udvikling og nuværende standpunkt

Life and work

Clara Tschudi (9 September 1856 – 10 November 1945) was a Norwegian writer.

She was born in Tønsberg. She is best known for her biographies of contemporary and historical women. Among her publications are the book Kvindebevægelsen, dens Udvikling og nuværende Standpunkt from 1885, and Tre Nutidskvinder from 1887 about the women's rights activists Camilla Collett, Lina Morgenstern and Gertrude Guillaume-Schack. Her book Kejserinde Eugenie from 1889 was the first of a series of biographical portraits of central women in the European Royal families. A German translation of her book on Empress Elisabeth of Austria was subsequently forbidden in Austria. She resided in Gausdal, and died in November 1945.

List of works translated into English

Marie Antoinette (1898) translated by E. M. Cope

Eugenie, Empress of the French. A Popular Sketch (1899) translated by E. M. Cope

Napoleon's Mother (1900) translated by E. M. Cope

Augusta, Empress of Germany (1900) translated by E. M. Cope

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (1901) translated by E. M. Cope

Maria Sophia, Queen of Naples (1905) translated by Ethel Harriet Hearn

Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria (1908) translated by Ethel Harriet Hearn

Napoleon's Son (1912) translated by E. M. Cope

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Collection

Books by Clara Tschudi

3 books