Sophie Thalbitzer

Sophie Thalbitzer (née Zinn, 15 April 1774 – 27 December 1851)[1] was a Danish memoirist known for Grandma's Confessions (Danish: Grandmamas Bekiendelser),[2] which offers a rare first-hand account of everyday life for a child and young woman in an upper-class bourgeois family in Copenhagen during the late 18th and early 19th century.

[5] She was a keen reader and was particularly struck by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions.

She later married Henry Thalbitzer (1767–1818) who was Royal Prussian consul to Helsingør.

They were originally intended for their son Carl Wilhelm Thalbitzer (Billy) but later published under the name Grandmama's Bekiendelser.

[7] They offer a first-hand account of everyday life as a child and young woman in an upper-class environment in Copenhagen during the late 18th and early 19th century.