Maria Kristina Kiellström, known as Maja Stina, was a Swedish silk worker and alleged prostitute, and most famously the fictional demimonde prostitute or Rococo "nymph" Ulla Winblad in the songs called Fredman's Epistles by Sweden's troubadour, Carl Michael Bellman, who made her a major character in his work.
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Detail from etching "The steps on Skeppsbro" depicting a scene in Stockholm's harbour by Elias Martin, 1800. The central figure is popularly supposed to be Carl Michael Bellman's semi-mythical Ulla Winblad, based on Kiellström.
The start of Fredman's Epistle no 71, Ulla, my Ulla, say may I thee offer reddest strawberries in milk and wine..., a song to Ulla Winblad, the mythical demimonde muse based on KiellströmAbout this person
Country
SwedenStatus
deceased
Dates
Lived 1744 to 1798 · aged 53
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7 languages
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