[1] She was born to the janitor Carl Johan Söderström and Hedvig Christina Möller 1793.
She was given some artistic instruction, and gave lessons to women in drawing in 1853–1854.
She was long referred to as the first professional female photographer in Sweden, but this distinction actually belongs to Brita Sofia Hesselius.
Her studio closed in 1862 at the latest, since it was by then registered under the name of a male colleague.
She participated with oil paintings in the exhibitions of Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts of 1856 and 1873.