Sophie adlersparre biography

Carin Sophie Adlersparre, known under the pen-name Esselde was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden.

Carin Sophie Adlersparre, also known as Esselde (born Leijonhufvud; July 6, 1823 – June 27, 1895), was an important figure in the 19th-century women's rights.

Women's rights activist.

Sophie was born as Leijonhufvud on 6 July 1823 at Kalmar, Sweden, and in the literature, both in English and Swedish, she always used her married name of.

Baroness Sophie Adlersperre was born in 1823 and grew up on the Helgerum estate in southern Tjust in Kalmar county.

Women's rights activist..

Sophie Adlersparre

Publisher, editor, writer and women's rights activist

Not to be confused with Sofia Adlersparre.

Carin Sophie Adlersparre, known under the pen-name Esselde (born Leijonhufvud; 6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895)^[1] was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden.

She was the founder and editor of the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, Home Review (Tidskrift för hemmet), in 1859–1885; co-founder of Friends of Handicraft (Handarbetets vänner) in 1874–1887; founder of the Fredrika Bremer Association (Fredrika-Bremer-förbundet) in 1884; and one of the first two women to be a member of a state committee in Sweden in 1885.

Life

Sophie Adlersparre, born into the Leijonhufvud family, was the daughter of lieutenant colonel Baron Erik Gabriel Knutsson Leijonhufvud and Sofie Emerentia Hoppenstedt. She was educated privately at home, and then spent two years at a finishing school, the fashionable Bjurström Pension