Elin Sofia Elisabeth "Lilly" Hellström (née Kullberg; 21 August 1866 – 2 March 1930) was a Swedish schoolteacher, children's newspaper editor and an active member of the Swedish

suffrage movement Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

. In 1917, she established Moderata Kvinnors Rösträttsförening (

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's Women's Suffrage Association) under the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR). After the death of her close friend and collaborator Stina Quint, Hellström became more politically active in the conservative Allmänna valmansförbundet.

Biography

Born in

Nyköping Nyköping () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden, with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the ...

on 21 August 1866, Elin Sofia Elisabeth Kullberg was the daughter of the bookshop owner Emil Gustaf Theodor Kullberg (1835–1897) and his wife Jenny Rosalie Leontina née Krogh (1843–1922). She was one of the family's six children. In 1889, she married the businessman John Hellström (1859–1889) who died just two months after their wedding. Lilly Kullberg attended Nyköping Elementary Girls' School where she later worked as a teacher from 1885 to 1889. After her husband's death, she became a close friend of her fellow teacher, Stina Quint. The two collaborated on providing better opportunities for children to develop their reading skills. In addition to creating the children's newspaper ''Folkskolans Barntidning'', they published children's books through the bookbinding business established by Lilly Hellström's father. In 1904, Hellström and Quint moved into a villa in Elfvik on the island of

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. It became a popular meeting place for writers, artists, suffragettes and local politicians. Both were active on the committee of the Moderate Party's women's association in Stockholm, cooperating with Allmänna valmansförbundet (AVF) on women's suffrage. From 1917, Hellström developed the suffrage association Moderata Kvinnors Rösträttsförening in collaboration with the national LKPR organization. Lilly Hellström died in Stockholm on 2 March 1930.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hellstrom, Lilly 1866 births 1930 deaths People from Nyköping Swedish feminists Swedish suffragists 19th-century Swedish educators Swedish editors Swedish women editors Swedish women writers