Charlotta Öberg


Charlotta Öberg known as Lotta Öberg, was a Swedish poet.
Born in poverty as the child of a lumberman and a cleaning woman, she was not able to work for a living because of her bad health. She educated herself by reading the school books of a neighbour's son. Her poems were read at the salon of a rich woman, for whom her mother worked, which made her discovered. She was placed in a pension by count Gustaf af Wetterstedt, and her career was financed by rich people.
Between 1834 and 1841, she published the collection Lyriska dikter which was given the assessment: They give witness of a deep and warm emotion, which in a simple, innocent and touching way reminds of the tones from the great poets, from which she was inspired. Her death was reported in the press.