 Before here departure to Karlskrona, she wrote the poetic collection "Cronstedtska poemboken", which was a gift to her friend countess Margaretha Beata Cronstedt.The death of her spouse in December 1741, only a couple of months after their wedding, caused a severe depressive chock.She retired to a rented cottage at Lidingö outside Stockholm to mourn, during which she wrote the "Den sörgande turtur-dufvan", poems describing her longing for her lost love and the nature of sadness and loss.