 Growing up, she was plain and slightly lame, and an account stated that the cross-country wanderings of the majoress and Elisabet in "The Saga of Gosta Berling" could be the author's compensatory fantasies.As many other children of the upper class, the children of the family received their education at home, since the Volksschule system, compulsory education system, was not fully developed yet.Their teacher thus came to Mårbacka and the children received education in English, as well as French.