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MÅRBACKA

Mårbacka is the place where Selma Lagerlöf was born on november 20^th, 1858, and there she lived until she left for Stockholm in 1882 to learn the teaching proffession.A few years later, after her father´s death, the house had to be sold and no longer belonged to the family. After having successfully published "The story of Gösta Berling", "Jerusalem" and "The adventures of Nils"she managed, howewer, to buy the house and from 1907 she used to live here every summer.

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The manor-house was still the old red-painted house of one story from the end of the 18^th century where she and her parents had lived, but later she decieded to have the house completly rebuilt, and this was done in 1921-23 acording to drawings by G.Clason. Selma Lagerlöf lived in this new house until she died in 1940.

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