first wife Maria Charlotta von Scheven for having eloped with their adoptive son. After the wedding, she left Stockholm for Gothenburg, where she became a celebrated member of Gothenburg high society life. The marriage did not result in issue. In 1812, her spouse went bankrupt and lost his position, and she separated from him and returned to Stockholm. Between 1815 and 1831, she supported herself by managing a girls' school. After having closed her school in 1831, she mainly lived on some smaller annuities given to her by old acquaintances. Legacy In 1826, she published a book about writers, theatre, music, painting and sculpture. Ehrenström is most known for her memoirs in French, which is regarded as a valuable reference work of contemporary Stockholm and Gothenburg in 1792-1812, particularly the contemporary culture life. The unpublished manuscript is now kept at the Swedish Academy. A selected part of her memoirs were translated and published by Henrik Schück in 1919 under the title Den sista gustavianska hofdamen ('The last lady in waiting from the age of Gustav III'). In fiction Marianne Ehrenström is portrayed in the novel Pottungen (Chamber pot child) by Anna Laestadius Larsson from 2014, in which she, alongside Ulrika Pasch, Anna Maria Lenngren, Ulrika Widström, Jeanna von Lantingshausen and Sophie von Fersen, becomes a member of a Blue Stockings Society organized by Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. Works 1826 - Notices sur la littérature et les beaux arts en Suède 1830 - Notice biographique sur monsieur de Leopold, secrétaire d'état See also Margareta Alströmer Christina Charlotta Cederström Märta Helena Reenstierna References Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare (Swedish women; Predecessors, pioneers). Lund: Signum 1990. () Mariana Maximiliana Christiana Ehrenström Mariana (Marianne) Maximiliana Christiana Carolina Lovisa Ehrenström, f. Pollet, urn:sbl:16725, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av H. Schuck. Med bidrag av 8. Walin.), hämtad 2016-10-07. 1773 births 1867 deaths Swedish classical pianists Swedish women pianists 18th-century Swedish writers 19th-century Swedish writers 18th-century Swedish singers 19th-century Swedish singers 18th-century Swedish painters 19th-century Swedish painters Swedish ladies-in-waiting Swedish maids of honour Swedish memoirists Women memoirists 18th-century Swedish women writers 19th-century Swedish women writers 19th-century Swedish women artists 18th-century Swedish women artists 18th-century keyboardists Gustavian era people 18th-century Swedish musicians 19th-century Swedish musicians 18th-century Swedish women musicians Women classical pianists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts