Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Carlen, Emilie, novelist, was born in 1807 at Stromstad, Christiania Fjord. Her maiden name was Schmidt. From her first husband, a music-master by name Flyggare, she was divorced. She began to write novels when past 30. In 1841, being then a widow, she married a Stockholm lawyer and miscellaneous writer, J. G. Carlen, and in 1883 she died. Her novels (about 30 in number), which have been translated into various languages, deal with the every-day life of the lower and middle classes.