Background
Fougt was the daughter of Peter Momma, royal printer, and the publisher Anna Margareta von Bragner.
Fougt was the daughter of Peter Momma, royal printer, and the publisher Anna Margareta von Bragner.
Between 1772 and 1811, she ran the Royal printing and was responsible for the country"s official print. As a widow, she ran the business herself and in her own name for nearly thirty years. She was herself also editor for the paper Stockholms Weckoblad in 1774-1779.
Elsa Fougt published French, German and Swedish drama and imported books from the Société typographique de Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
Henric Fougt Junior. laid down the business by the end of 1833. Norstedt & Söner acquired it in 1835.
She was a member of the order Amarenterorden, in which she gave memorial speeches of the salonist Anna Charlotta von Stapelmohr and one of the co-founders of the order, Beata Elisabeth Théel.