15 Facts About Agda Montelius

Agda Georgina Dorothea Alexandra Montelius was a Swedish philanthropist and feminist.

Agda Montelius was educated at the fashionable girls' school Hammarstedtska flickskolan in Stockholm.

Agda Montelius was described as diminutive, calm, kind and thoughtful, dutiful and always busy with her many projects.

Agda Montelius had bad eyesight and eventually became blind in one eye.

Agda Montelius was regarded as a central figure and an ideal among the women of the higher middle class in Stockholm.

Agda Montelius was the leading figure of the Swedish philanthropy in the early 20th century.

Agda Montelius was a supporter of Difference feminism and believed it to be important for women to participate in politics and the organization and formation of society on order to protect the rights of the sick, the weak and needing and to make society a home.

In 1886, Agda Montelius officially became a member of the women's rights organisation of Sophie Adlersparre: the Fredrika Bremer Association or FBF.

Agda Montelius was initially called vice chairman, but in 1903, she formally became chairman, officially the first female chairperson of the FBF.

The delegation was headed by Agda Montelius, accompanied by Gertrud Adelborg, who had written the demand.

Agda Montelius never became a formal member, probably because of her chairmanship of the FBF, but she was informally active for the LKPR.

Agda Montelius performed many tasks for the LKPR, she made the resources and the members of the FBF available for service in the LKPR, and she made the paper of the FBF, Dagny, the spokes organ of the LKPR until 1911.

Agda Montelius was a consultant in the governmental committee for the reformation of the marriage rights law in 1912, which eventually led to husband and wife being given equal rights within marriage.

Agda Montelius was active within the peace movement, during which FBF again collaborated with the LKPR.

Agda Montelius was awarded the Swedish Royal Medal Illis Quorum in 1910.