Louise Söderqvist

Louise Söderqvist
Louise Charlotta Kristiana Flodin, née Söderqvist (17 September 1828 – 20 March 1923), was a Swedish journalist, typographer, feminist and publisher. She was seen as the first woman in Sweden to be given a newspaper licence. Life. Flodin was born in Örebro, were her mother managed a school. Originally a teacher in her mother's school, she became an apprentice at a printing shop in 1856, and educated herself in typography, then unusual for a woman. She bought a printing press in Arboga in 1858, and started to publish the Arboga Tidning (Arboga Paper), which had one number a week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Flodin

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