Her preserved correspondence is regarded as a valuable historic source about the courtiers of the Danish royal court of her time.
[1] She was born to Count Christian Ditlev Reventlow (1710-1775) and his first wife, Baroness Johanne Sophie Frederikke von Bothmer (1718-1754).
She was one of the few people Queen Caroline Matilda befriended prior to the banishment of her favorite Louise von Plessen.
Until 1797, they lived in Tremsbüttel in Holstein, where her spouse was a local administrator and where she hosted a salon described as a centre for the German-Danish cultural world.
She corresponded with many of the leading figures within the literal and political world in Denmark and Germany, among them Goethe.