Elsa Maria von Born, born June 20, 1879, in Storsarvlax, died December 4, 1956, in Helsinki, was a Finland-Swedish author.
Biography Elsa von Born was the second oldest daughter of Viktor Magnus von Born and Hulda Augusta Berndtson, who had seven daughters and two sons. She graduated from the in 1898. Between 1901 and 1924 she was married to Gustav Adolf Silfverhjelm. In the 1920s and 1930s, more precisely from 1927 to 1931, she undertook study trips to Italy, which she made known in Finland through lectures and newspaper articles. The book Italian Impressions (1936) is based on memories from this time.
Elsa von Born's actual debut as a writer occurred in 1931 with the memoir Nio syskon på landet, which depicts Finnish-Swedish manor life. She worked as a freelance writer and was vice-chairman of the from 1935 to 1937 and from 1938 to 1945. Among her other works are Långöfolket (1937), stories of the East Nyland archipelago from the Prohibition era, Beauty and Heart (1941), portraits of famous women from earlier times (among them Rosina Lavonius, Ebba Lavonius, Ellan de la Chapelle, modern Hulda von Born and Emelie Antell), and books about Borgå and Pernå.
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