Frida Stéenhoff

Frida Stéenhoff
Born
Helga Frideborg Maria Wadström

(1865-12-11)11 December 1865
Stockholm, Sweden
Died22 June 1945(1945-06-22) (aged 79)
Stockholm, Sweden
Other nameHarold Gote
OccupationsWriter, feminist
Spouse
Gotthilf Johan Vilhelm Stéenhoff
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(m. 1887; died 1943)​
RelativesEllen Hagen (sister)
Tord Hagen (nephew)

Helga Frideborg Maria "Frida" Stéenhoff (née Wadström; 11 December 1865 – 22 June 1945) was a Swedish writer and women's rights activist. She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality and a contributor of several radical progressive publications. She was engaged in the women suffrage movement and several humanitarian organisations.

Life

Frida Wadström was born to the chaplain Carl Bernhard Philonegros Wadström (1831–1918) and Helga Westdahl (1838–1879), and was the sister of the suffragist and writer Ellen Hagen. In 1887 she married the physician Gotthilf Stéenhoff.

During World War II, she participated in anti-fascist work. Stéenhoff was a leading central figure of the free love movement in Sweden, for birth control, sex and romance without marriage, and critical toward the institution of marriage, subjects for which she became controversially known by her debut novel: Lejonets unge (Lion's Child) from 1896. She is credited with having introduced the modern concept of feminism in Sweden with her publication Feminismens moral (Feminist Morality) from 1903.

She used the male pseudonym Harald Gate. She was among the contributors to the feminist magazine Tidevarvet.

Works

Novels and serials

Plays

Essays and other publications

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tidevarvsgruppen (The Age Group), Fogelstad-gruppen (The Fogelstad Group) and the newspaper Tidevarvet (The Age.)". Hjördis Levin's homepage. Archived from the original on 28 August 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2016.

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