Margrethe Lasson

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”.