Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll

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Eleonora Charlotta d'Albedyhll (née Wrangel) was a Swedish countess, poet, and salon host. She was born on 27 March 1770 in Stockholm and died on 29 May 1835 in Stockholm.

She married Baron Gustaf d'Albedyhll in 1795 and moved with him to Nyköping. The marriage was happy. In 1812 they moved to Uppsala, where Eleonora started a literary salon and became a center of cultural life. She helped lead the Romantic scene in Uppsala and supported the Fosforisterna, a group of romantic poets, including Per Daniel Atterbom, who greatly admired her.

Her early work includes the 1789 poem Jacobinen, written in honor of Anna Maria Lenngren. In 1807 she completed the novel Ludvig von Mansfeldt, though it was not published. From 1810 her poems appeared in various publications, such as Lunds Veckoblad, Journal för Litteraturen och Theatern, and Poetiska kalendariet. Her best-known piece is Gefion, skaldedikt i fyra sånger, a Norse-inspired poem published in 1814. She wrote under the pen name Ch. Wr.