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Anderson, Mary (1872 - 1964) [sv]
Magnusdotter
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Mary Anderson served as head of the American Women’s Bureau in 1920. By the time of her retirement, in 1944, she had been responsible for ensuring employment conditions for millions of women, both during times of peace and war.
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Anderson, Tillie (1875 - 1965) [sv]
Andersdotter
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Anderson-Shoberg
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The Terrible Swede
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Tillie Anderson was a cyclist in the 1890s and one of the first Swedish-born professional sports profiles.
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Andersson (Kungsbackagumman), Lena (1824 - 1904) [sv]
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Kungsbackagumman
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Brita Lena Andersson was a legendary wise old woman who successfully healed the sick. She is known as the Kungsbackagumma (“old woman of Kungsbacka”).
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Maja Andersson Wirde was one of the leading Swedish textile artists in the first half of the twentieth century.
Wendela Andersson-Falck was an artist, illustrator and gymnastics teacher, one of the pioneers in Swedish women’s gymnastics.
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Nathalie Andersson-Meijerhelm was a philanthropist who was an active member of the Swedish revivalist movement and who founded Kristliga föreningen av unga kvinnor (KFUK) in Sweden in 1887.
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Alma Andersson was one of the seven early female Swedish Baptist preachers who were sent out to evangelise.
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Bibi Andersson was one of Sweden’s foremost actresses and one of the internationally best known. She appeared in about one hundred film and TV productions and also in numerous theatre productions.
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Ebon Andersson was a working-class girl from Masthugget who became a member of parliament of 30 years standing for Högern (today the Moderate Party).
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Elsa Andersson was the first Swedish female pilot and parachutist.
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Hedda Andersson was the first female student to attend Lund University, starting her studies in 1880. She became the second female medical doctor in Sweden in 1892.
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Andersson, Hilda (1888 - 1948) [sv]
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Hilda Andersson was a nurse, missionary and author. After completing her missionary assignment in China, she settled in Jerusalem in 1927 where she was active until her death.
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Ida Andersson was a free church preacher in the province of Västergötland in the west of Sweden and an enterprising Baptist leader of the Slättmission in the region of Skara.
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Andersson, Ingrid (1918 - 1994) [sv]
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Ingrid Andersson was an author. Her most prominent works are influenced by her personal experiences in rural northern Sweden.
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Kaj Andersson was a journalist and newspaper founder with a focus on women’s issues and social policy.
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Karin Andersson was a politician of Centerpartiet (Swedish Centre Party), who served as the minister for gender equality and as the minister for migration in Thorbjörn Fälldin’s government from 1979 to 1982. Her time as a minister was in many ways formative for the development of Swedish gender equality politics.
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Andersson, Lisa) (1873 - 1958) [sv]
Anna Lisa
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Huglek
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Anna Lisa Andersson was a journalist, editor, author and translator. She is best remembered as the author who used the byline ‘Huglek’ in *Aftonbladet*.
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Johanna Maria Andersson was known as Lundakvinnan (the woman from Lund) like her mother [](Elna Hansson). She was a lay woman doctor who continued her mother’s practice treating wounds and broken bones in Malmö during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Andersson, Maria (1837 - 1922) [sv]
Jansson
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Maria på Stigen
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Patronessan
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Den galna herrgårdsfrun
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Garna Maria
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Maria Andersson was an entrepreneur who set up a textile business, introduced a more humane mental health care in Sweden, and established cooperative residences.
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Andersson, Mary (1929 - 2020) [sv]
Johnsson
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Mary Andersson was a working-class author who wrote in the genre of social realism first and foremost. She wrote novels, drama and books of reportage on the most vulnerable people in the community.
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