Catharina Ahlgren

Catharina Ahlgren
Born1734
Sweden
Died1800
NationalitySwedish
Other namesCatharina Bark, Catharina Eckerman
Occupation(s)writer, poet, translator, managing editor, journalist.
Known forfeminist and writer

Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800) was a Swedish proto-feminist poet and publisher, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden.

She was the publisher and chief editor of a number of different women's periodicals in Stockholm and in Finland between 1772 and 1783, and the publisher of the first periodical (as well as the first one by a woman) in Finland Om konsten att rätt behaga (1782).[1] She is also known for her correspondence with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht.[2] Ahlgren was a leading person in the Swedish "female literary world of the 1750s and 1770s".[2]

  1. ^ Henrika Zilliacus-Tikkanen: När könet började skriva – Kvinnor i finländsk press 1771–1900 (English: When gender started to write - women in Finnish media 1771-1900)
  2. ^ a b Carl Forsstrand (in Swedish): Sophie Hagman och hennes samtida. Några anteckningar från det gustavianska Stockholm. (English: Sophie Hagman and her contemporaries. Notes from Stockholm during the Gustavian age") Second edition. Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm (1911)