Malla Silfverstolpe

Magdalena Sofia "Malla" Silfverstolpe (née Montgomery; 8 February 1782 – 17 January 1861) was a Swedish writer and salon hostess.

Her husband suffered from repeated bouts of "mjältsjuka"—an illness that, though then associated with the spleen ("mjälte" being the Swedish word for the organ), might now be diagnosed as depression.

Silfverstolpe's salon welcomed leading figures in Swedish science, literature and high society and even hosted influential foreign visitors to the country.

Aside from her support for romantic poets and novelists, Silfverstolpe was also a patron to a number of songwriters, including Per Ulrik Kernell and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad.

Her writings provide an important contemporary account of figures such as Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Lindblad, Anders Fredrik Skjöldebrand, Esaias Tegnér, Adolf Törneros and Johan Olof Wallin.