to a position at the customs in Norrköping. A figure named Nordström appears in Bellman's Fredman's epistles. Bellman himself had a sinecure job in the customs service. The marriage was unhappy as Nordström treated her badly. She became a widow in 1781, when she moved back to Stockholm, and in 1786, in her middle forties, she married Erik Lindståhl, a man eleven years her junior. She was at this time described as a very well preserved beauty. As Ulla Winblad Kiellström inspired Carl Michael Bellman to create his character, the prostitute "Bar-Nymph", demimonde, and courtesan Ulla Winblad ("Ulla Vine-leaf") who appears in many of the songs in Fredman's epistles. The popular Epistle no. 71 begins: Ulla! min Ulla! Säj får jag dig bjuda rödaste smultron i mjölk och vin,...Ulla, my Ulla, say may I thee offer reddest strawberries in milk and wine... It is said that both Kiellström and her husband felt persecuted by Bellman's portrayal of her, and she was exposed to much humiliation because of his songs involving her alter ego. Indeed, another woman who simply had the Christian name "Ulla" found her Stockholm newspaper advertisement ineffective in the 1790s, as her unhappy suitor replied "How can you expect me to marry you when you have such a name?" See also Ulla von Hopken Lovisa von Plat References Sources Bellman.net om Ulla Winblad och Maija-Stina Kiellström Britten Austin, Paul. The Life and Songs of Carl Michael Bellman: Genius of the Swedish Rococo. Allhem, Malmö American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, 1967. Artikel i Dagens Nyheter, 070726. Matz, Edvard. Carl Michael Bellman – Nymfer och friskt kalas''. Historiska Media, Lund, 2004. Further reading 1744 births 1798 deaths People from Stockholm 18th-century Swedish people Burials at Maria Magdalena Church Gustavian era people