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 17 January 1826 |
| Died | 31 May 1905 (aged 79) |
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 Naisasialiitto Unioni (The Finnish Women´s Association Unioni) 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
editEhrnrooth's life was documented by biographer Helena Westermarck in Adelaïde Ehrnrooth.[4]
Bibliography
editPoetry
edit- Sagor och minnen (1863)
- Gråsparven (1868)
Novels
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- 1 2 Suomen kulttuurihistoria, p. 59. Editor in chief Laura Kolbe. Editor in charge Tuula Kousa. Editors Anssi Sinnemäki and Laura Nevanlinna. Tammi 2004.
- ↑ Schoolfield, George C. A History of Finland's Literature. University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
- ↑ "Ehrnrooth, Adelaide". Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ↑ 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
edit- Kotioja, Eeva (2018). Uskallus puhua: Sukupiiri ja sosiaalinen pääoma Adelaïde Ehrnroothin yhteiskunnallisen toiminnan mahdollistajina [Encouraged to speak: Family and social resources as an enabling factor for the societal work of Adelaïde Ehrnrooth] (in Finnish). University of Helsinki. ISBN 978-951-51-4435-5.
- Kotioja, Eeva (2018). Uskallus puhua: Sukupiiri ja sosiaalinen pääoma Adelaïde Ehrnroothin yhteiskunnallisen toiminnan mahdollistajina [The confidence to speak: family and social capital as enabling factors for the political work of Adelaïde Ehrnrooth] (Doctoral thesis) (in Finnish). University of Helsinki.
- Westermarck, Helena (1928). Adelaïde Ehrnrooth: Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Söderström.
External links
edit- Ehrnrooth, Adelaïde in Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish).
- Ehrnrooth, Adelaïde in Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish).
 | This biographical article about a women's rights activist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |