Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht

Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht was born in Stockholm on 28 November 1718, the youngest of the five children of a wealthy official who was ennobled in 1727, and received lessons from her brother's tutor on and off. In the spring of 1741 she married the admiralty chaplain Jacob Fabricius, who had taught her French; he died in Karlskrona in December. A penniless widow, she lived by her pen, kept a literary salon in Stockholm and, in a poem against Rousseau in 1761, defended women's right to knowledge. She died in Stockholm on 29 June 1763.

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• PoetryDen sörgande turturduvanHedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht · 1743not translated into EnglishLiterature