Background
Her father was the duke Polycarpus Cronhielm (1774-1810) and her mother Anna Margareta Maria Edenhielm.
Her father was the duke Polycarpus Cronhielm (1774-1810) and her mother Anna Margareta Maria Edenhielm.
She had five siblings. The couple got six children. The Westdahls led the great awakning in the 1840 in Jönköping, they started the sobriety movements with Pauline Westdahl as manager for the bibelstudy group created by the United Bible Societies.
And after his death in 1865 Westdahl lived in Stockholm as a vicars widow with a yearly pension of 200 (South East Kansas).
To make a living she had to rent out rooms, and translated articles for and wrote for local newspapers. She released her first novel "Rosor och törnen in 1873 at the age of 63.
Even though she earlier had published book on sobriety and the hurtful nature of the drink.