Editing Gustaf Fröding (section)

== Sickness ==
[[File:Fröding and Heidenstam dressed in togas 1896.jpg|thumb|Gustaf Fröding and [[Verner von Heidenstam]] dressed in togas, the day after Heidenstam's marriage at [[Blå Jungfrun]]]]

The latter part of his life he spent in different [[psychiatric hospital|mental institutions]] and hospitals to cure his [[mental illness]] and [[alcoholism]], and eventually [[diabetes]]. During the first half of the 1890s he spent a couple of years at the Suttestad institution in [[Lillehammer]], [[Norway]], where he finished his work on his third book of poetry ''Stänk och flikar'', which was published in 1896. He wrote much of the material at a mental institution in [[Görlitz|Görlitz, Germany]]. In 1896 he moved back to Sweden. But as the year neared Christmas, his sister Cecilia made the difficult decision to make him stay at a hospital in [[Uppsala]]. Under the care of professor [[Frey Svenson]] Fröding got away from liquor and women, except one, Ida Bäckman. Fröding never married Ida, but grew fond of a nurse named Signe Trotzig. When he left hospital in Uppsala she stayed with him to the day he died.

A play by Swedish playwright Gottfrid Grafström, called ''Sjung vackert om kärlek'', about Fröding's time at the mental institution in Uppsala was first performed at the [[Royal Dramatic Theatre]] in 1973<ref name="dramaten">{{cite web | url=https://www.dramaten.se/medverkande/rollboken/Play/1057 | title=Sjung vackert om kärlek | publisher=[[Royal Dramatic Theatre]] | access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref> and has had periodic revivals since.