Mathilda Hall (1833-1894) was a Swedish educator. Hundrade och en Göteborgskvinnor / Lisbeth Larsson (red). Arkiv i väst, 0283-4855 ; 22. Göteborg: Riksarkivet, Landsarkivet i Göteborg. 2018. sid. 107-109. Libris 22682935. ISBN 9789198465747 She was the founder and principal of the Mathilda Hall School (Swedish: ''Mathilda Halls skola'': 1857-1938) of Gothenburg. She was a pioneer of women's education as the founder of one of the most notable private educational institutions for women in Sweden at the time. She was educated at the

Societetsskolan Societetsskolan i Göteborg för döttrar ('Society School for Daughters in Gothenburg') or simply ''Societetsskolan'' ('Society School'), was a Swedish girls' school managed by the congregation of the Moravian Church in Gothenburg from 1 November ...

and then in the Netherlands. Her ambition with her school was to found a school to provide girls with serious academic education. This was during a time period when many schools such as hers were established by local school pioneers around Sweden, and she was the local Gothenburg pioneer. Her school remained one of the most fashionable and modern for girls in Gothenburg, known for its many schools for girls, for many decades after her death.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hall 1833 births 19th-century Swedish educators 1894 deaths Swedish governesses 19th-century Swedish women