[2] Her family lived half the year in Stockholm where her father attended to his parliamentary duties.

She beat her sister Laura into print by a year with her publication Skisser och berättelser in 1883 using the nom de plume of Rachel.

By December her not strong new husband had turned to drink and had made her a widow for a second time and a mother of a third child.

She worked as a singing teacher in Uppsala but poverty eventually drove her to live with her sister Laura, but this was problematic.

Laura's success with her 1907 book about the 1860s and her youthful daughter Rosa raised jealousy and arguments.