Per Böklin

FB's reading with Per Böklin led to an upheaval in her emotional life. Though he was older, and regarded by her family as belonging to a lower social class, he fell in love with her...

FB's lifelong friendship with Per Böklin survived her refusal of his hand and his marriage to someone else. The influence he had on her thinking was shared by Stina, Countess Sommerhielm , and the academic...

After FB became a published author, in the early 1830s, she embarked on an ambitious programme of reading, drawing on books in several languages. Her English friend Frances Lewin helped her in studying James Mill

Two of FB's friends, Per Böklin and Stina Sommerhielm , both judged this work as well below her usual standard.

Many of FB's letters survive, including 300 to Per Böklin (and 200 from him to her).