As a governess in Livonia, Russia, and Germany for several decades, she developed didactic tales for juvenile audiences.
[1] Karoline Stahl was born on 4 November 1776 in Olengof, Livonia in the family of a district court secretary.
The book included a work that was later revised by Wilhelm Grimm and which today is one of the most famous German fairy tales White and Rose.
In addition, from 1816 to 1820, she contributed to several local newspapers, among which was Friedrich Wilhelm Hubitz's periodical Der Gesellschafter.
[2] Having been widowed, in 1820, Stahl returned to the Russian Empire and worked as an educator in Dorpat, Pskov and Belarus.