Born Stockholm 1718.
Died Stockholm 1763.
Poet, remembered for her sensitive love poems.
She fought all her life to keep her Christian faith, although disturbed by the ideas of the Enlightenment and this conflict is expressed in her reflective poetry.
The deaths of her fiancé in 1737 and of her husband soon after their marriage in 1741 inspired her finest poems some of them published in Den Sörgande turtur-dufvan (1743).
During the 1750s she enjoyed a literary collaboration with Gustav Philip Creutz and Gustav Fredrik Gyllenborg.
In 1761 she fell tragically in love with a man much younger than herself and her poems about him are her highest achievement.
Her collected works were edited by H. Borelius and T. Hjelmqvist (4 vol., 1924-38).
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