Born: 8 August 1807, Sweden
Died: 5 February 1892
Country most active: Sweden
Also known as: Emilie Smith, Emilia
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Swedish novelist, noted for her stories of seafaring people, fishermen, and smugglers, with whom as a child she came in frequent contact. Her first novel, “Waldemar Klein,” (1838) was followed by her marriage (1841) to Johan Gabriel Carlén, a lawyer and poet of Stockholm. She wrote many popular tales and her salon was the literary centre of the capital. Mrs. Carlén founded charitable endowments in aid of students and of teachers and of fishermen and their widows. Many of her works have been translated into English, and she also wrote an entertaining autobiography, “Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life” (1878).