Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle (1760–1800) was a Swedish noblewoman and

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. She was the daughter of noble

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Hans Ehrenstråhle and Maria Elisabeth Uggla and married in 1791 to the writer

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. 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.

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* Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864) * Gabriel Anrep, Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor, volym 1, s. 699 1760 births 1800 deaths Swedish women poets 18th-century Swedish women writers 18th-century Swedish nobility 18th-century Swedish poets {{Sweden-poet-stub