Nya Idun is a Swedish cultural association for women founded in 1885, originally as a female counterpart to Sällskapet Idun ('the Idun Society'). Its aim was to "gather educated women in the Stockholm area for informal gatherings". There was also an early 20th-century women's journal of the same name. Nya_Idun_1885

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Nya Idun was founded on 7 February 1885 in the premises of the at Jakobsbergsgatan 11 in

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. Its founders were

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and Amelie Wikström. The first fifteen women elected to the association's committee were

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, Selma Giöbel,

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, Hulda Lundin,

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, Anna Whitlock, and Coraly Zethræus. The association's model was Sällskapet Idun in Stockholm, founded in 1862, which, according to its statutes, was for "men living in Stockholm who have their own activities and interests in science, literature and art in various fields". Sällskapet Idun accepted only male members, and Nya Idun was formed to serve as a counterpart for women. On the founding of the organization, Calla Curman wrote, "Why shouldn't we women too, regardless of our different political and religious views, be able to come together for a mutual exchange of ideas in common intellectual, artistic and literary interests?" The association met once a month, with art exhibitions and musical and literary lectures. Its first meeting was attended by 20 people. On that occasion, author Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler gave a lecture on, among other things, the

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movement abroad, which led to the founding of the

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the following year. The association still exists for women academics and artists of various kinds.

Swedish-American woman's journal

A Swedish-language women's journal of the same name was published in

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, Minnesota, from 1906 to 1924 by Magnhild Anderson.

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Sällskapet Nya Idun
– the association's homepage {{Authority control 1885 in Sweden Organizations established in 1885 Clubs and societies in Sweden Women's organizations based in Sweden