Charlotta Frölich (28 November 1698 – 21 July 1770) was a Swedish writer, historian, agronomist and poet. She sometimes used the pseudonym Lotta Triven. She published poems, stories, and work about political and scientific subjects. She was the first female to be published by the

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Biography

Charlotta Frölich was the daughter of the Royal Councillor General Count

Carl Gustaf Frölich Count Carl Gustaf Frölich (163714 March 1714) was a Sweden, Swedish military officer of German descent, Riga Governor in 1700-1706 and infantry general. He was the brother of a Pietist writer and mystic Eva Margareta Frölich (1650-1692) and ...

and Beata Christina Cronström, and the paternal niece of the religious visionary and author

Eva Margareta Frölich Eva Margareta Frölich (c. 1650 – September 1692 in Stockholm), was a Swedish Mysticism, mystic, prophet, visionary and Pietistic writer. Biography Frölich was born the daughter of colonel Hans Christoffer Frölich and Elisabet von Plessen. The ...

. In 1735, she married count Johan Funck, country governor of Uppland. Frölich described her childhood as very strict, deprived of any luxury and devoted to

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and hard work, and stated that she was educated in history, reading, writing, household tasks and religion. She resisted marrying for many years because she wished to devote herself to agriculture, but she continued to do so after marriage in 1735; both before and after her marriage, she was the owner of the estate Överbo, which had a

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where she made

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. In 1741-42, she became the first of her gender to be published by the

with three books in agricultural science depicting her own experiences and suggesting various inventions in agriculture. The only other female to be published by the Academy of Sciences during the

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was

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. In 1759, she published a history book, making her the first female historian of her country. In 1768, she became one of two Swedish women, alongside Françoise Marguerite Janiçon, to participate in the political debate on economic policies of the state who published herself without a pseudonym during the

. She was also a poet known for her funeral poems.

Works

* Et ankommit bref om såningsmachinen under namn af Lotta Triven. (1741), book about agricultural science * Huru Norrlands bråkorn bör skötas i södre orterne i Swerige, beskrifwit af Lotta Triwen. (1742), book about agricultural science * I föregående ämne eller om ängeskötsel är ingifwit af Lotta Triwn. (1742), book about agricultural science * ''Swea och Götha christna konungars sagor, sammanfattade til underrättelse för Sweriges almoge och menige man, som af dem kunna lära, huru deras k. fädernesland ifrån flera hundrade år tilbakars blifwit regerat, samt se, huru på gudsfruktan,: laglydnad, dygd och enighet altid följt Guds wälsignelse; men deremot synd, lagens och eders öfwerträdelse, samt oenighet, haft til påföljder swåra landsplågor, blodsutgiutelser, förödelser m.m.'' (1759), history book * ''Charlotta Frölichs Enslighets nöje, eller Gudeliga tanckar under en andäktig bibel-läsning yttrade i rim i anledning af åtskilliga anderika språk, som til enskylt ro och förnöjelse samt lefwernes förbättring blifwit anförde och korteligen: förklarade.'' Tryckt i Upsala 1763 (1763), spiritual prayer book * ''Den utflugne bi-swärmen, eller Högwälborna fru grefwinnan - - N.N:s. berättelse til herr - - - - - N.N. Om en af honom gifwen, men år 1768 förolyckad bi- stock eller bi-kupa. Jämte herr - - - - - N.N:s swar på samma berättelse'' Stockholm, tryckt hos Lorens Ludvig Grefing 1768 (1768), political book * Poëme, till allmänheten, om folck-ökningen i Swerige (1768), political book

Sources

* Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare. Stockholm: Gidlunds Förlag. * http://www.uu.se/press/pressmeddelanden/pressmeddelande-visning/?id=1243&area=&typ=pm&na=disputation&lang=sv
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