Editing Christina Nilsson (section)

== In literature ==
She is a minor character in ''[[The Age of Innocence]]'' by [[Edith Wharton]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/541/541-h/541-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg E-text of The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton|website=www.gutenberg.org}}</ref>

She is mentioned in ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' by [[Leo Tolstoy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gutenberg.org/files/1399/1399-h/1399-h.htm|title=Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy|website=gutenberg.org}}</ref>

She is widely believed to have been the inspiration for [[Christine Daaé]], the heroine of [[Gaston Leroux]]'s novel ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]]''.<ref name="auto10">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BwZg084u_oC&dq=christina+nilsson+phantom+of+the+opera&pg=PT38|isbn=978-1-4185-7616-5|title=Gifts of Passage: What the Dying Tell Us with the Gifts They Leave Behind|date=31 August 2009|publisher=Thomas Nelson}}</ref><ref name="auto12">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dq4dziPIJUMC&dq=christina+nilsson+phantom+of+the+opera&pg=PA286|isbn=978-0-19-969457-0|title=The Phantom of the Opera|date=8 March 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford}}</ref>  Towards the end of his life, Leroux claimed the character was based on a real opera singer "whose real name I hid under that of Christine Daaé",<ref name="auto12"/> and details of Nilsson's early life heavily reflect details in the fictitious Christine Daaé's history,<ref name="auto10"/><ref name="auto12"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPsTEAAAQBAJ&dq=christina+nilsson+phantom+of+the+opera&pg=PA212|isbn=978-0-429-87862-6|title=Paris and the Musical: The City of Light on Stage and Screen|date=17 March 2021|publisher=Routledge}}</ref> even to the point of using ideas and language from contemporary reviews of Nilsson's performances in ''Faust'' in 1869.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2DzkgU213lwC&dq=nilsson+carvalho+faust+1869&pg=PA163|isbn = 978-1-139-49585-1|title = Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust|date = 31 March 2011|publisher = Cambridge University Press}}</ref>