17 Facts About Anna Whitlock

Anna Whitlock was a Swedish reform pedagogue, journalist, suffragette and feminist.

Anna Whitlock was co-founder and twice chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage.

Anna Whitlock was the co-founder of the women's cooperative food association Kvinnornas Andelsforening Svenska Hem.

Anna Whitlock was the daughter of the merchant Gustaf Whitlock and Sophie Forsgren, and the sister of the feminist and author Ellen Whitlock.

Anna Whitlock introduced innovations such as student councils, parent days, free choice of subject, voluntary education in religion, and vacation colonies for school children.

Anna Whitlock's school was successful, was granted government support, and the right to issue professional degrees.

Anna Whitlock was a member of the board in the Foreningen for religionsfrihet for several years in the 1880s.

Anna Whitlock expressed her liberal views regarding religion as a speaker, and published a work on this issue: Skolans stallning till religionsundervisningen i Sverige och andra lander.

Anna Whitlock opposed this and made the subject voluntary in her school.

Anna Whitlock was active as a speaker on geography at the Stockholms arbetarinstitut from 1882 to 1897.

Anna Whitlock was an early member of the women's association Nya Idun, founded in 1885, and one of its first committee members.

Anna Whitlock is one of the leading pioneers of the women's suffrage movement in Sweden.

Anna Whitlock was one of the co-founders of the National Association for Women's Suffrage.

Anna Whitlock wrote the first public appeal to the women of Sweden to form a suffrage movement in the press, and she organized the rules of the association.

Anna Whitlock had a very good relation to her vice chairperson, Signe Bergman, and was respected for her ability to, though personally a liberal, maintain the political neutrality of the association.

In 1911, when the suffrage movement was forced to make a political stand against the Conservatives, because their party was by then the only one to oppose women suffrage, the conservative Lydia Wahlstrom stepped down as chairperson: it was because of the respected ability to be neutral that Anna Whitlock was elected for her second term in office as chairperson in 1911.

Anna Whitlock was awarded the Swedish royal medal Illis quorum meruere labores by King Gustaf V of Sweden in 1918.