[2][1] Eva Mannerheim's mother died young, and her father remarried and moved to Paris, and she was sent to Stockholm for her schooling and later artistic and technical education, including drafting, woodblock printing and leatherwork.

[2][1] In 1893, Eva Mannerheim married the Swedish artist and designer, Count Louis Sparre, with whom she had two sons.

[3] Her interests covered a broad range of matters including book design, bookbinding and typography.

[3] Mannerheim-Sparre wrote several books in her life, mostly memoirs and travel journals, and especially towards the end of her career she was predominantly seen as a writer.

'Cookbook for Gourmands and the Ordinary Hungry') (Bonnier, Stockholm 1935; Finnish translation: Otava, Helsinki 1936), which has since been re-edited and printed several times.