Flygare-carlén, Emilie

Related Category: Scandinavian Literature: Biographies

(flü´gärĕ´´-kärlān´), 1807–92, Swedish novelist. In The Rose of Thistle Island (1842, tr. 1844) and A Merchant's House on the Skerry (1860–61), she wrote of sea life on the Bohuslan skerries where she spent her childhood. Her 26 multivolume novels were written with the aid of a large staff of relatives and friends and throughout Europe were the most popular Swedish works of the 19th cent.