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Catharina Asplund was a prominent leader active within the radical pietist revivalist circles in eighteenth-century Österbotten.
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Maria Aspman made seminal contributions to the world of pedagogy in the beginning of the twentieth century. She belonged to the pedagogical reform group which included [](Anna Sandström) and Edvard Palmgren.
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Åstrand, Irma (1927 - 2016) [sv]
Andersson, senare Ryhming
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Irma Åstrand was a pioneer researcher in the field of work physiology, with a focus on the various conditions and demands of working life. She was active during the second half of the 1900s.
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Åström, Lissie (1924 - 2013) [sv]
Nilsson
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Lissie Åström was a forerunner with regard to the introduction of the gender perspective within ethnological research in Sweden.
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Ingrid Atterberg was a leading designer within the Swedish modernist movement. She produced ceramic work which found wide distribution within “folkhemmet”, the distinctly Social Democratic expression of the Swedish welfare state.
Ebba Atterbom was a teacher who taught Italian and a translator. She was the first person to translate the work of James Joyce into Swedish.
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Augusti, Lovisa (1751 - 1790) [sv]
Ester Salomoni
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Lovisa Augusti was an opera singer, actress and member of the Royal Academy of Music.
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Valborg Aulin was an eminent pianist, composer and piano teacher.
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Aurelius, Julia (1886 - 1980) [sv]
Marx, Julia [sv]
Julia Aurelius was the wife of the bishop in Linköping diocese (1927-1935). As such she set up the first meeting for wives of the clergy held by the Swedish church. She also introduced the Herrnhut (Moravian) star into Sweden, which eventually became a nationally traditional advent star.
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Signe Aurell was a poet and essayist, widely published in the Swedish-American labour press between 1915 and 1920. She advocated specifically for the unionisation of women working in domestic service in the United States of America.
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av Namur, Blanka (1320 - 1363) [sv]
Blanche of Namur
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Blanche of Namur was queen of Sweden and Norway. She was the consort of King Magnus Eriksson.
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Ax, Carin (1915 - 2006) [sv]
Carina
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Carin Ax was an illustrator, graphic designer and author, working in Uppsala where she was born and lived all her life.
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Sun Axelsson was one of the most prominent authors to emerge from the 1970s explosion in women’s autobiographies. Her portrayal of her childhood spent at the head gardener’s home at the Gothenburg Slottsskogen has become a modern classic.
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Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg was an author, translator, popular educator and promoter of public morality. She also took the initiative to introduce Mother’s Day in Sweden.
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Marie-Louise Bachman was a historian and a librarian. She was the first woman with a senior post at the Kungliga biblioteket. She was in the first rank when the research library was digitalised during the 1970s and she contributed actively to introducing an international perspective to the Swedish research library world.
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Barbro Backberger was a well-known and well-publicised author, journalist, and feminist debater.
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Ida Bäckmann was a journalist and an author, and she is best known for her biographies of Gustaf Fröding and [](Selma Lagerlöf).
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Bäckström, Barbro (1939 - 1990) [sv]
Erhardsson
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Barbro Bäckström was an artist and a sculptor, particularly known for her reliefs, constructed of fine wire mesh, which depicted female nudes.
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Gerda Bäckström was a driving force in the founding of scouting for girls in Sweden and was for several decades a central leading figure in the girl guides’ and girl scouts’ association: Sveriges Flickors Scoutförbund (SFS). She was also active in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
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