Elin Wägner was one of Sweden's leading authors of her generation and remains a pivotal figure in twentieth-century Swedish feminism. Her extensive oeuvre, which includes twenty novels, several collections of short stories, the ecofeminist essay Väckarklocka (Alarm Clock, 1941), an epoch-making study of the province of Småland, a two-volume biography of the novelist Selma Lagerlöf, and many journalistic articles, was widely translated, chiefly into the other Scandinavian languages and Finnish, and more sparingly into German, French, Dutch, and Russian. Wägner was elected in 1944 as a member of the Swedish Academy, only the second woman to hold the honor. Following her death much of her output was quickly forgotten, but during the 1970s and 1980s there was a renewed interest in her ecofeminist writings as the concept of ecofeminism, which links the oppression of women and the degradation of nature...