
Ebba Margareta Palmstierna, born ''Carlheim-Gyllensköld'' (
27 August
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1877
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–
9 October
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1966
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) was a
Swedish
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noblewoman and suffragette.
Life
Palmstierna was born in 1877. She was the daughter of the commander Alfred Edvard Rutger Carlheim-Gyllensköld and of Maria Elisabet Christina Ehrenborg. In 1899, she married
Erik Kule Palmstierna (1877-1959), with whom she had several children, one of them Carl-Fredrik Palmstierna.
She was active in the
National Association for Women's Suffrage in
Karlskrona
Karlskrona (, , ) is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with a population of 66,675 in 2018. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Swed ...
and was in the board of the Karlskronia association that gathered signatures for a 1905 petition for women's suffrage. She was also one of the signatories on this petition. In 1917, she was a board member on a national level for the National Association for Women's Suffrage, together with
Signe Bergman
''Signe'' Wilhelmina Ulrika Bergman (10 April 1869 – 1960) was a Swedish feminist. She was the chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR) which was then called The Swedish Society for Woman Suffrage in English (see pho ...
,
Karolina Widerström,
Gulli Petrini
Gulli Charlotta Petrini ( Stockholm, 30 September 1867 – Stockholm, 8 April 1941) was a Swedish Physicist, writer, suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was the chairperson of the local branch of the National Association for ...
and Ester Brisman.
Årsberättelser 1917
i Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt, utgivna 1918. Läst 5 november 2020.
Palmstierna wrote down her memoirs during her lifetime. They were published in 1973 posthumous in two volumes, one of them ranging from 1877 until 1905 and another one from 1907 until 1922.
References
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20th-century Swedish people
1966 deaths
1877 births
Swedish suffragists