Charlotta Berger

Christina Charlotta Ulrika Berger, née Cronhielm af Hakunge (21 August 1784 – 25 May 1852), was a Swedish writer, translator, poet and songwriter.

Charlotta Berger was born in Linköping, the daughter of the major count Carl Emil Cronhielm af Hakunge and Hedvig Ulrika Boije af Gennäs, and the sister of the politician count Otto August Cronhielm.

Early on, she started to publish her own poems in a number of papers, often historical anecdotes in the form of verse.

[1] She published several novels which went as serials in among others papers Aftonbladet, and poems in the magazine Magasin för konst, nyheter och moder between 1823 and 1844.

Her novels were generally written in the style of sentimental family novels, with heroines in the style of the virtuous and tormented Clarissa by Richardson, and the motive a young love couple who triumphs over the obstacles in their way to a happy marriage.