Daniel Sten

Daniel Sten (1846–1930) was the pen name of the Finnish writer Ina Lange, née Forstén. Besides her literary work, Lange was also a pianist, music educator and music historian, and she wrote in Swedish with a realist bent. Her works often draw on the Finnish countryside and on women's circumstances, presenting ordinary people's fates and feelings within everyday settings in a plain style marked by careful observation. Her representative works include Sämre folk, Bland ödebygder och skär and Berättelser från Finland, and three of her works are held in this collection. Public information on the details of her life is limited; existing accounts focus mainly on her literary output, her musical activities and the themes of her writing, and she left her mark in both Finland-Swedish literature and musical culture.