FLYGARE-CARLEN, EMILIE Swedish novelist, was born in Stromstad on Aug. 8, 1807. Her father, Rutger Smith, was a retired sea-captain, and she often accompa nied him on the voyages he made along the coast. She married in 1827 a doctor named Axel Flygare, and went with him to live in the province of Smaland. After his death in 1833 she returned to her old home and published in 1838 her first novel, Waldemar Klein. In the next year she removed to Stockholm, and married, in 1841, the jurist and poet, Johan Gabriel Carlen (1814-75)• The most famous of her 31 volumes of tales are Rosen pd Tistelon (1842 ; Eng. trans. The Rose of Tistelon, 1842) ; Enslin gen pd Johannesskaret (1846; Eng. trans. The Hermit, 4 vols., 1853) ; and Ett Kopemanshus i skargdrden (1859; The Mer chant's House on the Cliffs) . Fru Carlen published in 1878 Minnen of svenskt forfattarlif 184o-186o, and in 1887-88 three volumes of E f terskord f rdn en 8o— drings f or f attarbana, contain ing her last tales. Her home was a meeting place for Swedish men of letters. She died at Stockholm on Feb. 5, 1892.