Charlotta Öberg (1818, in
Stockholm
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– 21 June 1856) known as ''Lotta Öberg'', was a Swedish poet.
Life
Öberg was born in Stockholm to a charwoman and a carpenter. Due to her family's poverty, she was unable to attend school as a child.
Her poems were read at the
salon
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of a rich woman, for whom her mother worked, which made her discovered. She was placed in a pension by count
Gustaf af Wetterstedt, and was able to attend school.
Between 1834 and 1841, she published the collection ''Lyriska dikter'' (Lyrical Poems) which was given the assessment: ''They
er poemsgive witness of a deep and warm emotion, which in a simple, innocent and touching way reminds of the tones from the great poets, from which she was inspired''.
[Charlotta Öberg i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)] Her death was reported in the press.
Further reading
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References
External links
Wilhelmina Stålberg: ''Anteqningar om svenska qvinnor''(Notes on Swedish women)
(1906)
1818 births
1856 deaths
Swedish-language writers
Swedish women poets
19th-century Swedish women writers
19th-century Swedish poets
Poets from Stockholm
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