[1] The young Nicoline showed great talent for science, and wrote her own stories and narratives.

Her triplets Camilla and Henrik Wergeland also occasionally stayed in the house at Akershus Fortress.

The novel was published anonymously, and by the literary historian Francis Bull it was described as a kind of post against the thinking against Camilla Collett's Amtmandens Døttre, where it celebrates women's renunciation and piety.

[3] Nicoline Thaulow was the daughter of amtmann in Nordre Bergenhus amt and chamberlain Niels Andreas Vibe (1759–1814) and Margery Kierulf (1775–1852).

She was married on 7 January 1834 in Vår Frelsers kirke in Christiania[4] with her third husband, the doctor and businessman Heinrich Arnold Thaulow (1808–1894).