[2] She early wrote poems in Latin, but they were presumably destroyed by the great fire of Bergen in 1702.
She was arrested, but her correspondent Otto Sperling appealed to the monarch that a learned female should not be executed.
From 1708, she lived in Copenhagen and socialized in the learned circles around the university and known as a poet.
[3] She is believed to have been the inspiration for till Zille Hans Dotters Gynaicologia eller Forsvars Skrift for Qvinde-Kiønnet by Ludvig Holberg (1722).
She was included in a dictionary of learned women by Otto Sperling, to whom she also dedicated poems.