Anna Margrethe Lasson was a Danish novelist, the first novelist in Denmark.

Lasson was born in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, to Jens Lassen (1625-1706), a judge on Fyn

FYN

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, and Margrethe Christensdatter Lund, and grew up on Dalum Kloster manor. Left destitute after her father's death and lived in poverty with a sister; their home was sold, but they were allowed to live there to their death.

She was the author of the famous poem to the Norwegian poet Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, whom she defends and admires. In 1715, she writes the novel Den beklædte Sandhed, which is published in 1723 and became the first novel in Denmark. Her psedonym was “det danske Sprogs inderlige Elskerinde Aminda”, and she wrote inspired by Madeleine de Scudéry

Madeleine de Scudéry

Madeleine de Scudéry , often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer. She was the younger sister of author Georges de Scudéry.-Biography:...

. She died in Odense

Odense

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