Anna Alm

Anna Vilhelmina Alm was a Swedish editor and author. Alm wrote several books and edited an independent Church of Sweden parish journal, Församlingsbladet.

Biography

Born in 1862 to Captain Olof Wilhelm Forssell and Jacquette Euphrosyne Cecilia Neijber in Harbo, Västmanland County, and married in 1886 to Carl Alm, in 1905 Anna Alm became the editor of the publication Församlingsbladet. Församlingsbladet was run by the Church organisation Sällskapet för främjande av kyrklig själavård, an organisation that was started by Carl Alm and later merged with the Church of Sweden lay association. The newspaper began as an insert for the Swedish newspaper Vårt Land but in 1904 became an independent publication, and dealt mostly with parish affairs. She remained in this position until 1918.
Alm wrote a number of books including En bok för mor, Boken om söndagarna, En gammal medeltidssaga för unga riddare, På storstadens gränsmarker, I Torstuna prästgård, and Från år som flytt.
Anna and Carl Alm are buried together at the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.