Little is known of her social life, although it is assumed that she kept in touch with her two sisters, Sophia and Emilia, and her childhood friends. Ferdinand Tollin (1807-1865), an artist who was a family friend, may have been the one who suggested that she take up painting. One of her nieces recalls the visits of "Mamsell" Sjöberg (as she was known) and remembers her as always wearing a large black hat and carrying a box of watercolors.