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Ingrid Årfelt was active in Uppsala as a designer and graphic artist, with an understated style often inspired by antiquity and Italy. She also contributed as a columnist and author to magazines and local newspapers.
Arfvidsson, Ulrica (1734 - 1801) [sv]
Lindborg
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Ulrica Arfvidsson was a fortune-teller who was active in Stockholm during the second half of the eighteenth century. She was known as Mamsell Arfvidsson and is said to have forewarned King Gustav III about his own murder.
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Carina Ari was a well-known dancer, choreographer and sculptor.
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Marika Arleman-Leander was a textile artist, designer and watercolour painter who among other things executed botanically correct flower motifs.
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Arnberg, Elise (1826 - 1891) [sv]
Arnberg, Elisabet Leonarda [sv]
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Elise Arnberg was a painter of miniatures and a photographer. She belonged to a circle of artists who experienced the decline in their usual profession when photography started to conquer Sweden and their circle of clients diminished.
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Maj Arnell is considered to be one of the last painters working in the Gothenburg colourist tradition. Through the use of colour as her main mode of expression, her apparently simple everyday scenes appear as lustrous colour poems.
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Sigrid Arnoldson was referred to as the third “nightingale of the North” during the 1800s, a successor to [](Jenny Lind) and [](Christina Nilsson). She was the only one of the three to make gramophone recordings of her songs.
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Stina Aronson was an eminent Swedish modernist author who portrayed the experiences of women and other vulnerable groups in society.
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Aronsson-Galle, Beda (1891 - 1986) [sv]
Galle
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Beda Aronsson-Galle was an artist who crafted straw into lively and story-telling straw sculptures. She was called by the press ”The uncrowned queen of straw” among other epithets.
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Louise Arosenius was a writer, a teacher of Swedish and foreign languages, and a prominent translator from English and German into Swedish.
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Lilly Arrhenius Beyer was an author and a debater who was heavily involved in social housing matters and consumer issues. She was also active in the Cooperative association and in Stockholm town council.
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Agnes Arvidson was the first woman in Sweden to gain a Master’s degree in pharmacy and also the first woman in Sweden to run a pharmacy with her own charter.
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Lillemor Arvidsson was the first woman who, from 1988 to 1995, held the position of chair within the LO (Swedish Trade Union Confederation) for Svenska Kommunalarbetareförbundet (SKAF) (the Swedish Municipal Workers’ Union). She also served as county governor of Gotland county from 1998-2004.
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Greta Arwidsson was an archaeologist. She was the first female Swedish county archivist as well as the first woman to become a professor of Nordic and comparative archaeology.
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Eva Åsbrink was the first Swedish woman to gain a doctorate in theology. She was a politician, a public opinion debator, and a school principal.
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Ingegerd Aschan contributed significantly and extensively to the spheres of education and theatre.
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Margaretha von Ascheberg was a landowner around the turn of the century 1700. In her husband’s place, she started a regiment and administered vast estates.
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Karna Asker was a pioneer of Swedish modern textile art.
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Eivor Asklin was an important figure within Svenska Lottakåren (Swedish Women’s Voluntary Defence Service), particularly in her role as Secretary-General of the association during the years 1967-1972.
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Asklund, Lis (1913 - 2006) [sv]
Lagercrantz
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Lis Asklund was one of the first hospital almoners in Sweden who mainly advised on sexual health and abortion issues. She also worked as a presenter on both radio and TV and was for instance in charge of the radio programme called *Människor emellan*.
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