[1][2] Ibsen scholar Oskar Mosfjeld describes her as an eccentric.
The Ibsen children were said to be afraid of her due to her odd behaviour.
[3] Today, it is considered likely that she suffered from dementia due to advanced age.
She was portrayed by Cecilie Graasvold in the play Rotte på loftet, and by Wenche Foss in the NRK television miniseries En udødelig mann.
Both her parents died early, and her mother was married for a second time in 1767 to (Fredrich) Engebreth Christopher Blom Bertelsen Bomhoff.