''Wilhelmina'' Carolina Gravallius, née ''Isaksson'' (7 September 1807, Mogata – 22 November 1884,

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), was a Swedish writer. She was born to parish vicar Carl Peter Isaksson and Anna Hallberg, and supported herself as a

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until 1846. She debuted with the novel ''Högadals prostgård'' (1844), which was a success. During her marriage to the vicar in Thoresund Christian Gravallius in 1846-1861, she was inactive as a writer. After his death, she moved to Stockholm and resumed her career. She published many novels as serials in newspapers and magazines. She was a popular novelist within the family novels of the time, but her novels were one-dimensional and morally very simplistic.

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C Wilhelmina Gravallius, urn:sbl:13165, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av Gösta Lundström), hämtad 2015-05-08.
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