 She also completed her studies at the Royal Seminary to become a teacher the same year as her father died.Lagerlöf was educated at the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm from 1882 to 1885.She worked as a country schoolteacher at a high school for girls in Landskrona from 1885 to 1895, while honing her story-telling skills, with particular focus on the legends she had learned as a child.