Signe Toksvig

Signe Toksvig with Frank O'Connor, 1936

Signe Kirstine Toksvig (14 February 1891–15 January 1983)[1] was a Danish writer. She contributed The New York Times, the Nation, The Atlantic, and other periodicals, and also published several books, including biographies of Hans Christian Andersen and Emanuel Swedenborg. Her life and work, and obstacles she encountered, has also been the focus of scholarship by others. She lived parts of her life in the United States and Ireland, and all her writings were in English.[2]: 448 

She is the great aunt of Sandi Toksvig.[3]

  1. ^ Pihl, Lis (2023-04-22). "Signe Toksvig, akademiker". Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference phil99 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ QI January 2018