Carin Sophie Adlersparre née Leijonhufvud was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden. She was the founder and editor of the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, Home Review, in 1859-85; co-founder of Friends of Handicraft in 1874-87; founder of the Fredrika Bremer Association (Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet) in 1884; and one of the first two women to be a member of a state committee in Sweden in 1885. She is also known under the pen-name Esselde.
Peter Bratt is a Swedish journalist. For many years he worked for the national Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter until he quit 2003.
Barbro Alving was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonym Bang. She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She reported from various scenes during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.
Emilia Augusta Clementina Broomé, née Lothigius, was a Swedish politician (liberal), feminist and peace activist. She was the first woman in the Swedish legislative assembly (1914).
Agda Georgina Dorothea Alexandra Montelius née Reuterskiöld was a Swedish philanthropist and feminist. She was a leading figure of the Swedish philanthropy, active for the struggle of woman suffrage, and chairman of the Fredrika Bremer Association in 1903–1920.
The National Association for Women's Suffrage was a part of the general suffrage movement and the national society for women's suffrage in Sweden. It functioned as a parallel to the Sveriges allmänna rösträttsförbund which was active mainly in acquiring full suffrage for males. The LKPR was a part of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. It was active locally from 1902 as the Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt, and nationwide as the Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt from 1903 until 1921.
Anna Whitlock was a Swedish reform pedagogue, journalist, suffragette and feminist. She was co-founder and twice chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage.
Signe Wilhelmina Ulrika Bergman, was a Swedish feminist. She was the chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage or LKPR in 1914–1917 and the Swedish delegate to International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1909–1920. She was the organiser of the congress of the Sixth Conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1911 and the editor of the paper of the LKPR, Rösträtt för kvinnor.
Lydia Katarina Wahlström was a Swedish historian, author and feminist. She was one of the founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and its chairman in 1907–1911.
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren,, was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist.
Anna Lindhagen was a Swedish politician, social reformer and women's rights activist. In collaboration with Anna Åbergsson, she was a leading force in the introduction of allotment in Sweden. She was one of the driving forces behind the foundation of the National Association for Women's Suffrage. Lindhagen was a member of the Stockholm City Council in 1911–1923.
Gertrud Virginia Adelborg was a Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement.
Gulli Charlotta Petrini was a Swedish Physicist, writer, suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was the chairperson of the local branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage in Växjö 1903–1914 and Stockholm 1914–1921, and sat in the city council for the liberals in Växjö in 1910–1914.
Ruth Valborg Maria Gustafson née Pettersson, was a Swedish politician, union worker, women's rights activist and editor. She was a member of the Stockholm city council in 1919–1938, a member of the second chamber of parliament in 1933–1960, and editor of the social democratic paper Morgonbris 1908–1910 and 1919–1921. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage in 1902–1921, and a speaker of the left wing within the movement.
Ellen Helga Louise Hagen was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, the chairperson of Liberala kvinnor in 1938–1946 and Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund in 1936–1963. During the 1920s and 1930s, she was internationally active within peace work and the Swedish delegate in the international peace conference in Paris in 1931.
Events from the year 1899 in Sweden
Events from the year 1919 in Sweden
Moa Matthis, is a Swedish literature critic and author. She writes for Dagens Nyheter, and she writes articles and books mostly for a feminist angle.
Stockholms Allmänna Kvinnoklubb was founded in Stockholm 11 June 1892, and became a part of the Swedish Social Democratic Party the same year. It is referred to as the foundation of the women's organisation within the social democratic worker's movement in Sweden. It was the first social democratic women's club to be officially a part of the party, and the first of many local clubs of the same kind. The Club organized the social democratic women within the Swedish working class movement by establishing local women's clubs and enlisting working women in the trade unions.
Sigrid Maria Kruse (1867–1950) was a Swedish educator, children's writer and suffragist. In addition to her teaching activities in Karlskrona, she strongly supported the suffrage movement, contributing articles to magazines, publishing brochures and speaking at meetings. In 1904, she established a local suffrage association and took part in the important Stockholm meeting on suffrage in 1909. From 1912 to 1926, she represented the Liberal People's Party in Karlskrona.
