Rosa Carlén

Catharina Rosaura "Rosa" Carlén (9 May 1836 – 12 February 1883) was a Swedish novelist, best remembered for Agnes Tell: en äktenskaps-historia, Tuva (1862), Brölloppet i Bränna: en brottmålshistoria (1863), and Helène: en qvinnas historia (1863).

Life and work Catharina Rosaura Carlén was born at Lerdalsstom in present Färgelanda Municipality, the child of the Swedish writer Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807–1892) and the lawyer Jacob Reinhold Dalin (1799–1835), although her father died of gangrene before they had time to marry. Through her father, Rosa Carlén belonged to the Ingevald family. The father was described as "a highly idiosyncratic personality, brilliant, fiery, eccentric and melancholy," and came to have a decisive influence on his fiancée's writing and was the one who encouraged her to start writing. The year after Rosa Carlén's birth, she was adopted by her father's childless relatives, Jonas Bågenholm (1803–1864) and his wife Andriette Charlotta Ekelund (1808–1889), who lived on the farm Onsön in Dals-Ed.