Sophie Adlersparre
Carin Sophie Adlersparre née Leijonhufvud (Helgerum in Västrum in Kalmar County, Sweden, 6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895, Ström outside Södertälje), was a Swedish women's rights activist. She was the founder and editor of the first women's magazine in Scandinavia, Tidskrift för hemmet in 1859-85, co-founder of Handarbetets vänner 1874—87, founder of the Fredrika Bremer-förbundet in 1884, and the first female to have been a member of a state comity in Sweden in 1885. She is also known under her pen-name Esselde. She belonged to the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden.
Life
Sophie Adlersparre was the daughter of colonel lieutenant Baron Erik Gabriel Knutsson Leijonhufvud and Sofie Emerentia Hoppenstedt. She was educated privately at home, and then two years at a finishing school, the fashionable Bjurströmska flickpensionen (Bjurström's Pension for Girls) in Stockholm. In 1869, she married the nobleman colonel lieutenant Axel Adlersparre (1812–1879), by whom she became the stepmother of five children.
