Maria Kristina Kiellström

Maja Stina (Maria Kristina) Kiellström (15 June 1744 – 20 January 1798) was a Swedish silk worker and alleged prostitute.
She inspired the songwriter and performer Carl Michael Bellman to create a major character in his Fredman's Epistles (songs), the demimonde prostitute or Rococo "nymph" Ulla Winblad.
Biography
Kiellström was born into a poor family in Stockholm, and her mother died when she was merely five years old. Her father, Johan Kiellström, had resigned from military because of epilepsy and supported himself as a street sweeper. At the age of 14, she was forced to support herself as a maid, and in 1763, she is listed as a silk worker. In 1765, she had a daughter who died after eight days by a nobleman who promised to marry her. During these years, she was rumored to be a prostitute. Historians, however, are not convinced that she truly was a prostitute. She was only arrested once, but not for prostitution; in 1767, she was arrested...