The ''Home Review'' () was a Swedish

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, published from 1859 to 1885. It was the first women's magazine in the

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and its inception is sometimes regarded as the foundation of Sweden's women's movement. It was sometimes published as the (') and after 1868 was known as the ('). __NOTOC__

History

The ''Home Review'' was founded by

Sophie Adlersparre Carin Sophie Adlersparre (née Leijonhufvud; 6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895), known by her pen-name Esselde, was a Swedish feminist, writer and publisher who was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden. She wa ...

and Rosalie Olivecrona in

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in 1859. It treated issues within women's rights and gender equality such as women's education, property rights, and legal status. Aside from this, the magazine also contained novels, serials, and

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. It also featured

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and

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. In 1886, the magazine was replaced by '' Dagny'', the paper of the

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. ''Dagny'' was renamed '' Hertha'' in 1914 after

Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finland, Finnish-born Sweden and Norway, Swedish Swedish literature, writer and feminism in Sweden, reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and ...

's novel by the same name.

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