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Eva Bagge was a painter whose main themes were farms, interiors and portraits.
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Inga Bagge was a sculptor and painter, and a pioneer in working artistically with new materials. Through her unreserved use of ”new” materials, she contributed to extending the arts field and thinning out the border between tradition and experiment — thus being an inspiration for her contemporaries and younger generations.
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Bahr-Bergius, Eva von (1874 - 1962) [sv]
von Bahr
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Eva von Bahr-Bergius was the first female docent in the field of physics in Sweden.
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Bahr, Elisabeth von (1838 - 1914) [sv]
Boström
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Elisabeth von Bahr made financial and practical contributions towards improving women’s social conditions, particularly within the spheres of education and employment.
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Bahr, Gunilla von (1941 - 2013) [sv]
Palmkvist
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Gunilla von Bahr was a flautist, music director, and a successful recording artist.
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Julia von Bahr was a teacher and an author of textbooks. She also founded one of Sweden’s first private sanatoria for the care of people suffering from tuberculosis.
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Louise von Bahr was a physical education instructor who was active in improving female physical education instructors’ working conditions during the first half of the twentieth century.
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Bandler, Vivica (1917 - 2004) [sv]
von Frenckell
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Bica
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Uca
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Vifslan
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Vivica Bandler worked as an author and in film as well as in theatre, as a theatrical director and theatre manager. In Sweden she is best known for her leadership of Stockholms stadsteatern and for introducing the Moomins onto the Swedish stage.
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Banér, Anna (1585 - 1656) [sv]
Gustafsdotter Banér, Anna
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Anna Gustafsdotter Banér was the wife of a privy councillor and is also believed to be the author of an eyewitness account of her father Gustav Banér’s last hours of life before he was executed at what became known as the Linköping Bloodbath in 1600.
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Banér, Sigrid (1592 - 1669) [sv]
Gustafsdotter Banér, Sigrid
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Gustafsdotter Banér, Sigrid
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Sigrid Gustafsdotter Banér was the daughter of a privy councillor, and a donor.
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Baptiste, Marie (1732? - 1759?) [sv]
Dumont
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Marie le Prévost
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Mademoiselle le Prévost
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Prevot
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Marie Baptiste was a French actress and singer working in Sweden. She was the prima donna of the French theatre company the Du Londel Troupe during the latter part of the 1700s.
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Elisabet Barnekow was a known portrait painter who campaigned for the equal opportunities of women as artists and citizens. She also played an important role as secretary of Föreningen Svenska Konstnärinnor (an association of Swedish female artists).
Barth, Signe (1895 - 1982) [sv]
Pettersson
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Signe Barth was an artist, known for her motifs from France and the Swedish west coast. For almost twenty years, she ran an art school in Stockholm.
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Elisabeth Bastholm was a textile artist and a driving force in the development of liturgical textiles in the late 1800s.
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Jeanna Bauck was primarily a landscape painter. Today she is best known for the series of innovative role portraits which she and the Danish artist Bertha Wegmann painted of each other in the 1880s.
Baude, Annika (1923 - 2004) [sv]
Bergman
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Annika Baude was a female social scientist, a Social Democrat, and she was also a pioneer in terms of being an equalities politician. She set up Grupp 222 which laid concrete foundations for the equalities reforms of the 1970s.
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Sally Bauer was a Swedish swimmer who was best known for her long-distance swimming. The height of her fame was achieved in 1939 when she became the first Scandinavian to swim across the English Channel. Bauer swam across the Sound (1931; 18km; 6.22 hours), Kattegat (1938; 48 km; 17.05 hours), the Sea of Åland (1938; 30 km; 13.06 hours), and twice across the English Channel (1939 and 1951; 27 km; 15.22 hours and 14.40 hours respectively). Furthermore, in the years 1934 to 1937 she set all 17 individual Swedish freestyle distance records between 200 and 1609 meters (equivalent to one British mile), and also won three Swedish national championship gold medals, of which one was an individual 400 meter freestyle.
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Beck-Friis, Regina (1940 - 2009) [sv]
Nordenfelt
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Regina Beck-Friis was a ballet dancer, a choreographer, and a dance expert.
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Stina Beck-Friis was an artist and book illustrator. Her illustrations for the book *Sörgården* (1912) by [](Anna Maria Roos) constitute her best known work.
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Beck, Ingamaj (1943 - 2001) [sv]
Guldberg Beck
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Ingamaj Beck was an author, art critic and translator. She introduced Italian poetry to Sweden.
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