Stina Swartling | |
Birth Name: | Kristina Lovisa von Hofsten |
Birth Date: | 28 June 1858 |
Birth Place: | Valåsen Manor, Karlskoga, Örebro County, Sweden |
Death Date: | 26 November 1912 |
Death Place: | Köping, Västmanland County, Sweden |
Nationality: | Swedish |
Occupation: | Writer |
Spouse: | Reinhold Magnus Swartling |
Father: | Bengt von Hofsten |
Relatives: | Erland (grandfather) Johanna Christina von Hofsten (aunt) |
Stina Swartling (née von Hofsten; 28 June 1858 – 26 November 1929), was a Swedish writer.
Stina Swartling was born on June 28, 1858, at Valåsen Manor, Karlskoga, Sweden, and was the second of ten children of Bengt and Baroness Lovisa Sofia von Hofsten (née Hamilton af Hageby).[1]
In 1880, Stina von Hofsten married Reinhold Magnus Svartling.[2] The couple settled in Espenäs, Örebro County.
In 1899, Swartling founded a garden school, which she branded as Sweden's first women-only garden school.