Charlotta Antonia "Charlotte Antoinette" Seuerling (1782/84 – 25 September 1828), was a blind Swedish concert singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet, known as "The Blind Song-Maiden".
She was active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. Her last name is also spelt as Seijerling and Seyerling. Her first name was Charlotta Antoinetta (or Antonia), but in the French fashion of the time, she was often called Charlotte Antoinette. She was the author of the popular song Sång i en melankolisk stund.
The harp of Charlotte Seuerling is kept at Stockholm Music Museum; also letters and poems written by her hand is kept. Among her writings are also kept a writing test, which is the oldest example of blind text in Sweden, written with a writing device constructed for the blind before Braille, kept at Kungliga biblioteket. Her song Sång i en melankolisk stund was published anonymously many times after 1828, and with her name in the songbook Miniaturvisbok (1852) alongside work by Johan Olof Wallin, Fredrika Bremer and Gunnar Wennerberg.
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