Fredrika Runeberg

Fredrika Runeberg
Fredrika Runeberg in 1875
Born	Fredrika Charlotta Tengström (1807-09-02)2 September 1807 Jakobstad, Kingdom of Sweden
Died	27 May 1879(1879-05-27) (aged 71) Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, journalist
Genre	Historical fiction, journalism
Spouse	Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Children	8, including Walter Runeberg
Relatives	Jakob Tengström (granduncle)

Fredrika Charlotta Runeberg (née Tengström; 2 September 1807 – 27 May 1879) was a Finnish (Finland-Swedish) novelist and journalist. She was a pioneer of Finnish historical fiction and one of the first woman journalists in Finland.^[1]

In her own time, she was mainly known as the wife of her famous husband, poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg. The family lived most of their life in Porvoo, where she created most of her works, including the historical novel Fru Catharina Boije och hennes döttrar (1858). She wrote in Swedish.