Toini Topelius


Toini Mathilda Topelius was a Finnish journalist and a writer for young people.

Life

Her parents were writer Zacharias Topelius and Emilie Lindqvist.
She went with her sister Eva with Swedish Rouvasväenkoulua and then studied art in Stockholm.
Topelius suffered impaired hearing and he devoted herself mainly to literary paintings.
She published in Swedish Nya Trollsländan, a children's magazine, with Alexandra Gripenberg in the years 1885-1892 and 1891–1892 in Alta Dahlgren.
She also published Waxwing magazine in Finnish.
She published travel letters and served as reviewer of children's books.
Her novel I utvecklingstid was first published in Finnish, and she also published fairy tale collections.
Topelius moved in the late 1890s in Norway, where she lived the rest of her years.

Works