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Louise Charlotta Kristiana Flodin, née ''Söderqvist'' (17 September 1828 – 20 March 1923), was a Swedish
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. She was seen as the first woman in Sweden to be given a
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Life

Flodin was born in
Örebro Örebro ( ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Örebro Municipality, and capital of Örebro County. It is situated by the Närke Plain, near the lake Hjälmaren, a few kilometers inland along the small river Svartån, and ...
, were her mother managed a school. Originally a teacher in her mother's school, she became an
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at a
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shop in 1856, and educated herself in typography, then unusual for a woman. She bought a
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in
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in 1858, and started to publish the ''Arboga Tidning'' (Arboga Paper), which had one number a week. In the beginning, she was the only employee of her paper and performed all the tasks. She employed only women to the paper: this was deliberate, because she wished to educate females to become typographers and journalists and thereby make the profession more available to them. She supervised all phases in the making of the paper from the writing to the printing and instructed her own typographers in the profession from the start. She was not the first female editor in Sweden - women founded and managed papers in the 18th century - but she was the first woman to be officially licensed as such, and she was seen by her contemporaries as a
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who opened a new field of profession for women. In 1862, the paper was sold, and she moved to
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, where she started and published the paper ''Iris'' in 1862–64, and in 1862–74 was a publisher and the manager of a printing press, were the staff consisted only of women. When women were officially admitted to the Publicistklubben (Swedish Publicists' Association) in 1885, she was one of the first to be admitted. She married the publisher Sigfrid Flodin in 1865.


See also

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Anna Hammar-Rosén Anna Hammar-Rosén, née Hammar (1735–1805), was a Swedish newspaper editor. She was the director, chief editor and publisher of the popular newspaper '' Hwad Nytt?? Hwad Nytt??'' in Gothenburg between 1773 and 1795.Berger, Margareta, Pennskaft: ...
* Elsa Fougt * Sofia Gumaelius


References

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Magazine Idun, Nr. 4, 1890
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Paper Dagny, Nr. 46, 1910


Further reading

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Flodin, Louise 1828 births Swedish feminists 1923 deaths Swedish typographers and type designers Print editors 19th-century Swedish journalists 19th-century Swedish businesspeople Swedish newspaper publishers (people) 19th-century newspaper publishers (people) 19th-century newspaper founders 19th-century Swedish businesswomen 19th-century Swedish women journalists People from Örebro