Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle
Swedish noblewoman and poet
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| Intro | Swedish noblewoman and poet | ||
| Places | Sweden | ||
| was | Poet | ||
| Work field | Literature | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1760 | ||
| Death | 1 January 1800 (aged 40 years) | ||
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Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle (1760–1800) was a Swedish noblewoman and poet.
She was the daughter of noble colonel Hans Ehrenstråhle and Maria Elisabeth Uggla and married in 1791 to the writer Jonas Carl Linnerhielm. She published a collection of poems, "Vitterhetsförsök" (1793). It consisted of both prose and poetry with "sentimental-moral contents" in the then popular Gessner-style.