Sara Holmsten (1715–1795) was a Swedish memoirist and member of the Moravian Church. Sara Holmsten was the daughter of a farmer in Åland, and the devastation wrought by the Russian army during the Great Nordic War reduced her to beggary. She later supported herself as a domestic and factory worker in Stockholm, before she became a member of the Moravian church in Stockholm in the 1750s, where she worked for the leading members of the congregation. In accordance with the custom of the members of the Moravian Church at the time, she wrote her autobiography. Her autobiography from 1787 is regarded as being among the most historically interesting of contemporary Swedish works of that kind. References Nordisk kvinnoliteraturhistoria. http://nordicwomensliterature.net/sv/writer/holmsten-sara http://nordicwomensliterature.net/sv/article/guds-skrivare Eva Hættner Aurelius: Inför lagen. Kvinnliga svenska självbiografier från Agneta Horn till Fredrika Bremer, 1996 Arne Jarrick: Den himmelske älskaren. Herrnhutisk väckelse, vantro och sekularisering i 1700-talets Sverige, 1987 Further reading 1715 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Swedish writers 18th-century Swedish women writers People from Åland Women memoirists