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Anna Almqvist was a self-taught intellectual working-class woman who was also one of the first librarians to work within the public library sphere. She also ran the Katarina congregation reading room.
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Ester Almqvist was one of the pioneers behind efforts to introduce modern art into Sweden.
Almqvist, Gertrud (1875 - 1954) [sv]
Almqvist-Brogren
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Molly Molander
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Madame Sans Gêne
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Madame Mère
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Gertrud Almqvist was a writer of books and articles. Women’s rights and female sexuality were just two of her many subjects.
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Almqvist, Ingrid (1927 - 2017) [sv]
Pyret
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Ingrid Almqvist was Sweden’s most successful female javelin thrower ever.
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Margareta Alströmer was a countess, singer, actress and artist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
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Margit Althin was one of the first female lawyers in Sweden. She set up and held leading positions in a range of associations which were internationally and culturally significant.
Ann-Charlotte Alverfors was a writer. Her debut novel, *Sparvöga*, and the two following novels quickly made her well-known within Swedish literary circles.
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Alving, Barbro (1909 - 1987) [sv]
Bang [sv]
Author Journalist
Barbro Alving, best known under the pseudonym Bang, was one of the first Swedish female war correspondents, as well as an active pacifist and supporter of women’s causes.
Fanny Alving was a much loved writer of causerie-style columns and an author.
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Amalia von Helvig was a German author, painter, art critic, translator and salon hostess who made significant contributions to the cultural mediation between Sweden and Germany in the first decades of the 1800s.
Améen, Elin (1852 - 1913) [sv]
Ameen
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E.A.
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Elisa
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Lina
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Elin Améen belongs to the generation of female authors writing in the 1880s. She released about ten publications, with a focus on novellas.
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Aminoff, Sigrid (1904 - 1994) [sv]
Oxenstierna (af Korsholm och Wasa)
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Sigrid Aminoff was an artist. She painted still lifes, portraits of close relatives and landscapes in oils and acrylic.
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Anckers, Kerstin (1931 - 2012) [sv]
Anckers-Lundahl
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Kerstin Anckers was a calligrapher and one of the founders of the school of calligraphy in Stockholm called Skrivskolan. She is the person behind many texts on Nobel diplomas and was entrusted by the Skolöverstyrelsen with the task of developing a new style of cursive script.
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Andelius, Emma (1862 - 1956) [sv]
Bergström
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Emma Andelius was a handicrafts instructor and a leading figure within the world of Swedish traditional crafts. She set up Umeå hemslöjdsföreningen (traditional crafts association) in 1909.
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Eva Andén was a lawyer, solicitor and the first female member of Sveriges advokatsamfund (the Swedish Bar Association). Throughout her life she worked to improve the legal provisions for women, children and the poor.
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Anderberg, Astrid (1927 - 2010) [sv]
Nordlind, Astrid
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Artist Ceramicist
Astrid Anderberg's work was a crossover between the applied arts and free visual arts. She was one of the artists who in the 1950s developed narratives through their ceramics. The themes of her visual stories were inspired by nature, literature and history.
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Andersen, Astri (1876 - 1911) [sv]
Strömberg
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Astri Andersen was a pianist, active around the turn of the twentieth century. She can be seen as representative of many important female musicians who died young without leaving the slightest trace of their artistry and whose existence is only retained in their names.
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Anneka Anderson was the first university-educated woman agronomist in Sweden.
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Anderson, Cecilia (1855 - 1919) [sv]
Andersdotter
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Cecilia Anderson was a pioneer woman entomologist and traveller. She probably counts as the first woman in Sweden to be an active insect collector on a global level with her own collection of scientifically labelled insects.
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Hedda Anderson was an author and an educator who was active during the nineteenth century.
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