Carlén

Carlén, EMILIE, a Swedish novel-writer, was born 8th August 1807 at Strömstad, near the Christiania Fjord. It was not till 1838 that her first novel, Waldemar Klein, was given to the world. She was then a widow; and in 1841 she married her second husband, J. G. Carlén, a lawyer and poet, in Stockholm. Her fictions, chiefly founded on the characteristics of the lower and middle classes, though faulty in many respects, are rich and striking in incident. Her novels were collected in 31 vols. (Stockholm, 1869-75), and many of these have been translated into English. She died at Stockholm on the 5th February 1892. See her Reminiscences of Swedish Literary Life (1878).