Pennskaftet (novel)
''Pennskaftet'' (English: "Penholder") is a 1910 novel by the Swedish writer Elin Wägner. Plot The title character is the female reporter Barbro Magnus ("Penholder") who becomes a sympathiser with the campaign for women's suffrage in Sweden. She falls in love with the young architect Dick Block, and the couple defies contemporary social norms by living together without being married. She also becomes acquainted with the school teacher Cecilia Bech, who finds meaning in her life in the campaign for suffrage. Context At the time of the novel's publication, women had already made a mark in the profession of journalism in Sweden, and Elin Wägner herself was employed as a reporter from 1908. It was also a period of intense campaign for women's suffrage, the struggle having organized with the foundation of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden), Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt in 1902, a struggle that was not to succeed until 1919. Finally, intelle ...
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Elin Wägner
Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (16 May 1882 – 7 January 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. She was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1944. Biography Elin Wägner was born in Lund, Sweden as the daughter of a school principal, Wägner was only three years old when her mother died. Wägner's books and articles focus on the subjects of women's emancipation, civil rights, votes for women, the peace movement, welfare, and environmental pollution. She is best known for her commitment to the women's suffrage movement in Sweden, National Association for Women's Suffrage, for founding the Swedish organization Rädda Barnen (the Swedish chapter of the ''International Save the Children Alliance'') and for developing the women's citizen school at Fogelstad (where she was also a teacher on civil rights). Alongside Fredrika Bremer, Wägner is often seen as the most important and influential feminist pioneer in Sweden. Wägner was the laun ...
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