She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping. She worked for some time as a governess in the countryside, and studied at Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm 1878–1881, after which she returned to teaching. In 1886, she married the Jewish florist Carl Fredrik Sachs (1860–1893).
She began her career as a journalist after the death of her spouse in 1893 to support herself and her children, and reported for several papers such as DN, Nya Dagligt Allehanda, SvD and Stockholmsbladet from 1895 until 1920. In 1899, she was the first of her sex to be a delegate at the international journalist conference in Rome, where she represented Swedish paper NDA. In 1902, she was one of the founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage and was a member of the board there in 1912–1921.
Maria Christina Röhl was a Swedish portrait artist. She made portraits of many of the best known people in Sweden in the first half of the 19th century. Her paintings are exhibited at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. The Swedish Royal library has a collection of 1800 portraits by her. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (1843) and an official portrait artist of the royal court.
Ulrika Melin (1767–1834) was a Swedish textile artist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
Wendela Gustafva Sparre af Rossvik was a Swedish textile artist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. She managed the Harg ironworks in Uppland between 1816 and 1827.
Barbro Östlihn was a Swedish artist.
Maria Charlotta Westberg, was a Swedish ballerina.
Karin Dorothea Wilhelmina Åhlin was a Swedish educator. She was the founder and director of the Åhlinska skolan in Stockholm, and its principal from 1847 to 1899.
Ida Eléonora Davida von Schulzenheim (1859–1940) was a Swedish painter. Her foremost motif was paintings of animals.
Gustafva "Stafva" Carolina Lindskog (1794-1851), was a Swedish athlete. She was a pioneer within the field of physical education of females in Sweden, and likely the first female teacher in physical education of her country.
Harriet Sundström, was a Swedish landscape artist.
Events from the year 1851 in Sweden
Ellen Rydelius was a Swedish translator and writer. She wrote a large number of guide books to major cities and several cookbooks but her major works are translations of Russian novels. In particular, she is remembered for her translation into Swedish of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.
Caroline Gustafva Eleonora von Knorring was a Swedish photographer and one of the first professional woman photographers in Sweden.
Carl Gottfried Seuerling (1727-1795) was a German born, Swedish stage actor and theater director. He was the director of the Seuerling theater Company in 1768-93 and as such the leader of one of only two professional Swedish language theater companies in Sweden of the era.
Elsa Harriet Thulin, was a Swedish translator.
Malvina Bråkenhielm born Hilda Ingeborg Malvina Gabriella Runsten was a Swedish writer of 30 novels and 250 short stories. She was philanthropic and also performed and taught music. Her elder sister was the writer Laura Fitinghoff.
Aurora (Aurore) Marie Pihl (1850–1938) was a Swedish educator and suffragist. She is remembered for establishing a girls' school in Norrköping in 1880 and for contributing significantly to the campaign for women's suffrage. In 1903, she co-founded Norrköping's Women's Suffrage Association where she was deputy chair until 1910. She shared management of the Norra flickläroverket until 1890 after which she was the sole principal until her retirement in 1916.
Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén was a pioneering Swedish female physician, schoolteacher, suffragette and women's rights activist. After graduating as a medical doctor in 1906, she was the first woman to open a practice in Norrköping, frequently treating her poorer patients free of charge. In 1907, Romanus-Alfvén joined the local branch of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR), chairing the organization until 1919. She also headed the women's council in Norrköping, providing support for disadvantaged women and children.
Gertrud Linnéa Sprinchorn was a Swedish sculptor and ceramist. She is best known for her sculptures Cleopatra and Helig dans, the former of which won her the Royal Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
Maria Gustafva Albertina Sandel (1870–1927) was a Swedish textile worker, writer, feminist, and social critic. Born in Stockholm, she was forced to leave school at the age of 12, and began to work to contribute to her family income. Despite her lack of formal education, she wrote articles for several journals, and later published her own novels. Often regarded as the Fredrika Bremer of the proletariat, her works are social commentary, especially on the conditions of working-class women.
Sigrid Agneta Sofia Elmblad, born Sigrid Agneta Sofia Pettersson, was a Swedish journalist, poet, translator and writer, who translated Der Ring des Nibelungen into Swedish and produced the first Swedish translation of the song of Saint Lucy. she produced her first poems under the pseudonym Toivo. Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and Finnish mother, she was an early member of the Nya Idun society, rising to be chair between 1918 and 1921. After working as a journalist for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, she travelled extensively with her husband, the opera singer Johannes Elmblad. While living in Bayreuth, she developed her interest in the music of Richard Wagner, which led her to translate his works into Swedish, including Parsifal in 1917, and the work of other German composers like Robert Schumann. She also wrote fiction for adults and children, as well as biographies for figures like Jenny Lind in 1920. She died in Sweden six years later.
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