After the death of her father in 1795, her mother took sole charge of the theatre and moved to Finland, where there was less competition, to tour as the director of her troupe.

She sent her daughter to Stockholm to have an eye operation by the famous doctors Rislachi and af Bjerkèn, that was promised to give her eyesight back.

Borg also taught her medicine; also in this subject, she was so successful that he argued that women would be equally and even better as medical doctors than men.

Inspired by her ability to learn, in 1808 Borg founded the first institute for the blind and the deaf in Sweden, Manillaskolan.

During this time period in history, blind and deaf people were often thought to be unable to be educated, and the demonstration of Charlotta Seuerling was of great help to the institute.

On 5 July 1809, Borg held a public exam for his pupils in front of five hundred guests, among them the queen, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.

Upon this, the queen complimented her, and Charlotta, entirely in the taste of the time, dropped her harp and fainted with happiness.

It teams depression, suicide and betrayal, but also of the happiness of friendship and the hope it gives, interpreted as her own feelings when she was given tuition by Pär Aron Borg and her life changed.

They were then both put under the protection of the Russian empress dowager, Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), who had heard of Seuerlings reputation as a harpist, and each received a pension of 600 rubles.

Charlotta moved to Russia, where she assisted in the development of Valentin Haüys Institute for the Blind in Saint Petersburg, where she received a position.