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. John Casimir Ehrnrooth was her brother.
Also recorded as Lovisa Ehrnrooth · Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
Matti Klinge (ed.): Helsingin yliopisto 1640–1990: Keisarillinen Aleksanterin yliopisto 1808–1917, p. 446. Otava, Helsinki 1989. · Public domain
- Name
- Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
- Birth Name
- Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth
- Born
- 17 January 1826
- Died
- 31 May 1905
- Nationality
- Grand Duchy of Finland
- Occupation
- writer · editor · women's rights activist
- Fields
- fiction
- Languages
- Swedish
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Ehrnrooth never married, and dedicated her life to helping the women and the poor. 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". Ehrnrooth proposed voting rights for women in 1869. Aside from her activist life and writing poetry, Adelaïde Ehrnrooth wrote travel accounts of her frequent journeys.
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Key facts
• Name — Adelaïde Ehrnrooth • Birth Name — Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth • Born — 17 January 1826 • Died — 31 May 1905
Poetry
Poetry
• Sagor och minnen (1863) • Gråsparven (1868)
Novels
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)
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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)
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1826
Adelaïde Ehrnrooth born at Nastola.
1905
Adelaïde Ehrnrooth died at Helsinki.
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Nastola.
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Helsinki.
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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)
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Ehrnrooth's life was documented by biographer Helena Westermarck in Adelaïde Ehrnrooth.
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- 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.
- 4.Amelia Sanz. Women telling nations. Editions Rodopi. 2014. 978-94-012-1112-3.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Kotioja, Eeva. Uskallus puhua: Sukupiiri ja sosiaalinen pääoma Adelaïde Ehrnroothin yhteiskunnallisen toiminnan mahdollistajina. University of Helsinki. 2018. 978-951-51-4435-5.
- Kotioja, Eeva. Uskallus puhua: Sukupiiri ja sosiaalinen pääoma Adelaïde Ehrnroothin yhteiskunnallisen toiminnan mahdollistajina. University of Helsinki. 2018.
- Westermarck, Helena. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth: Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv. Söderström. 1928.
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