 She named her collected works of four volumes "Qvinligit tankespel" (Female Reflections).Initially using the pseudonym "En Herdinna i Norden" (Shepherdess of the North), she continued by publishing under her own name, which was at the time not common.Her willingness to play a public role as a literary woman could be regarded as a step in her defense of women's right to be intellectually active, and disprove the traditional disbelief in women's intellectual capacity by making herself an example.