Elisabeth Beskow
Elisabeth Maria Beskow (19November 187017October 1928) was a Swedish author. Born in Stockholm, Sweden she went to the Beskow School and later studied at the Sabbatsberg Hospital as well as the Sophiahemmet. She wrote about fifty books under the pseudonym "Runa". A number of her books are translated into Danish, Finnish, French, English, German and Dutch. In her books she discussed the equal rights of men and women and spoke against animal testing and for vegetarianism.