Thekla Knös (1815 - 1880)

Thekla Levinia Andrietta Knös (17 July 1815 – 10 March 1880), was a Swedish writer, poet and translator. Her poems centered around descriptions of the Uppsala of her childhood, heroic poetry in the style of the then fashionable Gothicism, scenes from nature and everyday life and poems and songs for children in the idyllic and realistic style of the late romanticism.