The Language Debate in Finland
The Women Writer’s Group in Ostrobothnia
Norwegian poet Eldrid Lunden made her debut in 1968 with the poetry collection f.eks. juli (July for instance), a brazen new book that...
Social criticism and new consciousness in Norwegian women’s literature of the 1970s.
Based on the new research in women’s studies being conducted at Danish universities in the 1970s, a league of female reviewers arose who wrote...
The New Women’s Forum of the 70s
The Finnish author Hagar Olsson’s debut from 1916 was brought out the same year as Edith Södergran’s first poetry collection....
When Sweden introduced universal suffrage in the 1920s, a number of established authors used the autobiographical genre to tell their story and...
Author and journalist Elin Wägner was a central character in the struggle for women's suffrage in Sweden, and she was committed to pacifism. She...
In 1909, the battle for women's suffrage is raging. From London Elin Wägner covered “the greatest movement the world has ever seen”, the Fourth...
From 1910 until 1922, Gyrithe Lemche was a leading light of the Danish women’s movement. As national president of Dansk Kvindesamfund and as...
Súsanna Helena Patursson one of a number of women writers in the national movement. She wrote the first Faroese theatre play, Veðurføst (...
