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Ancestry 3
appointed lieutenant-colonel. In the histori-
cal sketch entitled An Old Scotch Brigade,
the M'Key regiment is depicted as having
fought with great distinction under the Swe-
dish banner.
Fredrik Key, great-grandson of James
M'Key, district judge, and, like his fore-
father, owner of an estate in Smaland, married
the widow of Captain J. A. Nordenflycht,
the nephew of the poet Hedvig Charlotta
Nordenflycht, himself similarly gifted. Ellen
Key has jokingly said that "this case seems
to verify the assertion that a widow's children
by a later marriage may resemble the former
husband, since first in C. F. Key, my great-
grandfather, son of this couple, did the strong
cesthetic and literary interest show itself in
our branch of the famity. " But this interest
may also have come from another source.
For the widow Nordenflycht, whose maiden
name was Louisa Elertz (she was German and
came from Stralsund), was herself a talented
woman.
With no knowledge of any connection in the
sense above alluded to, Oscar Levertin, in his
brilliant essay on Hedvig Charlotta Norden-
flycht (17 1 8-1 763), Sweden's first woman
poet, has given Ellen Key an important
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