Her Parents were Jens Lassen (1625–1706), was a High Court judge on the island of Fyn, and Margrethe Christensdatter Lund.
In 1680, however, Jens Lassen was convicted of treason against the Crown and had to repay a large debt.
Left destitute after her father's death in 1706, she lived in poverty with a sister at Priorgården in Odense.
[2] Lasson was the author of a baroque tribute poem to the Norwegian poet Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634–1716), whom she defended and admired.
Her pseudonym was “det danske Sprogs inderlige Elskerinde Aminda”.