Josefina Leontina Amanda Wettergrund (née Lundberg; 2 September 1830 – 8 March 1903, in Stockholm), known by the pseudonym Lea, was a Swedish writer and poet. She was the editor of the family magazine Svalan in 1871–1875. She was admired particularly for her ability to depict the defects of human character with humor.
Life
Wettergrund was born in 1830 to Carl Gustaf Kjellberg and Ulrika Lundberg, in the parish of Färlöv in Scania. Her father was a custom official and her mother was a teacher, not married to her father. She grew up with her mother in Blekinge, and attended school in Karlshamn. Wettergrund was active as a governess and opened and managed a girls' school in Ronneby in 1850–1857 before she married the telegrapher and later auditor Wilhelm Wettergrund and moved to Kalmar. From 1866, she lived in Stockholm.
Wettergrund has written poems and stories since childhood, and debuted as a published poet in 1858, with Småbitar på vers och prosa, which had a foreword by Wilhelm von Braun. This volume was followed by four others in a series. Wettergrund continued to contribute to various magazines and papers. In 1871–1875, she edited the weekly family magazine Svalan, where August Strindberg debuted as a novelist. She also edited the Aftonbladet serials section for a few years. She was a well known and popular writer in contemporary Sweden, and admired particularly for her ability to depict the defects of human character with humor. She wrote under the pseudonym Lea.
Wettergrund died in 1903 and is buried in Norra cemetery in Stockholm.
