Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle

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Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle (1760–1800) was a Swedish noblewoman and poet.

She was the daughter of noble colonel Hans Ehrenstråhle and Maria Elisabeth Uggla and married in 1791 to the writer Jonas Carl Linnerhielm. She published a collection of poems, "Vitterhetsförsök" (1793). It consisted of both prose and poetry with "sentimental-moral contents" in the then popular Gessner-style.

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  • Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)
  • Gabriel Anrep, Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor, volym 1, s. 699