Adelaïde Ehrnrooth

Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (17 January 1826 – 31 May 1905) was a Finnish feminist and writer. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was born in Nastola, one of the 16 children of an aristocratic family.[1] She was born to Gustaf Adolf Ehrnrooth, a hero of the Finnish War. John Casimir Ehrnrooth was her brother. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth never married, and dedicated her life to helping the women and the poor.

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Born
Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth

(1826-01-17)January 17, 1826
DiedMay 31, 1905(1905-05-31) (aged 79)
NationalityFinnish

She was the founder of the Finnish Women's Association— the first society for women's suffrage in Finland. She was also active in the Union Kvinnosaksförening (Women's Cause Association) in 1884 and the years after 1892, until her death in Helsinki. Helena Westermarck called her "Finland's first woman journalist."[2]

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth proposed voting rights for women in 1869.[1]

Aside from her activist life and writing poetry, Adelaïde Ehrnrooth wrote travel accounts of her frequent journeys.[3]

Legacy

Ehrnrooth's life was documented by biographer Helena Westermarck in Adelaïde Ehrnrooth.[4]

Bibliography

Poetry
  • Sagor och minnen (1863)
  • Gråsparven (1868)

Novels
  • Bilder ur familjekretsarna i Finland (1866; Pictures from Life in Finland)
  • Bland fattiga och rika (1887; Among Rich and Poor)
  • Dagmar: En hvardaghistoria (1870; Dagmar: An everyday story)
  • Tiden går och vi med den (1878; Time Passes and We With It)
  • Hvardagslifvets skuggor och dagar (1881; Shadows and lights of everyday life)

Political
  • I dagens intressanta samhällsfrågor, röst från en icke röstheråttigad (1882; On interesting social questions of the day: Vote for someone not entitled to vote)

Travel Books
  • Två finskors lustvandringar i Europa och Afrika åren 1876–77 och 1884 (1886; Two Finnish women's pleasure trips in Europe and Africe, 1876–77 and 1884)
  • Resor i Orenten (1890; Travels in the Orient)

References
  1. Suomen kulttuurihistoria, p. 59. Editor in chief Laura Kolbe. Editor in charge Tuula Kousa. Editors Anssi Sinnemäki and Laura Nevanlinna. Tammi 2004.
  2. Schoolfield, George C. A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
  3. "Ehrnrooth, Adelaide". Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  4. Amelia Sanz; Francesca Scott; Suzanna van Dijk, eds. (2014). Women telling nations. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi. ISBN 978-94-012-1112-3. OCLC 897069728.

Further reading
  • Kotioja, Eeva (2018). Uskallus puhua: Sukupiiri ja sosiaalinen pääoma Adelaïde Ehrnroothin yhteiskunnallisen toiminnan mahdollistajina [Encouraged to speak: Family and socal resources as an enabling factor for the societal work of Adelaïde Ehrnrooth] (in Finnish). University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-951-51-4435-5.
  • Westermarck, Helena (1928). Adelaïde Ehrnrooth: Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Söderström.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.