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Emilie Flygare-Carlén

Died in 1892

Emilie Flygare-Carlén, born Smith in Strömstad on 8 August 1807, grew up on the coast of Bohuslän; her father, Rutger Smith, a former captain turned small merchant, took her along from the age of twelve on his rounds along the coast. Married at twenty to the doctor Axel Flygare and widowed in 1833, she returned to her family and devoted herself to writing; settled in Stockholm, she married the jurist and poet Johan Gabriel Carlén in 1841 and held a salon. The death of her son, the young writer Edvard Flygare, was followed by several years of silence. She founded charities for fishermen and died in Stockholm on 5 February 1892.

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