Paulina Westdahl, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Paulina Westdahl

Swedish author

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1810

Date of Death: 07-Aug-1887

Profession: writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Eleonora Polynetta (Pauline) Emilia Westdahl, (24 March 1810 - 7 August 1887) was a Swedish author and pioneer within the Swedish awakening movement.Her father was the duke Polycarpus Cronhielm (1774-1810) and her mother Anna Margareta Maria Edenhielm.
She had five siblings.
From 1825 she resided in Jönköping and married a vicar named Carl Magnus Westdahl in 1835.
They had six children.
The Westdahls led the great awakening in the 1840 in Jönköping, they started the sobriety movements with Pauline Westdahl as manager for the Bible study group created by the United Bible Societies. In 1848 her husband became the vicar of Karlshamn and Asarum.
After his death in 1865 Westdahl lived in Stockholm as a vicar's widow with a yearly pension of 200 (SEK).
To make a living she had to rent out rooms, and translated articles for and wrote for local newspapers.
She released her first novel "Rosor och törnen in 1873 at the age of 63.
Even though she earlier had published book on sobriety and the hurtful nature of the drink.