Adelaïde Ehrnrooth 1826 – 1905

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was a Finnish feminist and writer. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was born in Nastola, one of the 16 children of an aristocratic family. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth never married, and dedicated her life to helping the women and the poor.
She was the founder of the Finnish Women’s Association— the first society for women’s suffrage in Finland. She was also active in the Union Kvinnosaksförening (Women’s Cause Association) in 1884 and the years after 1892, until her death in Helsinki. Helena Westermarck called her «Finland’s first woman journalist.»

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth proposed voting rights for women in 1869.Aside from her activist life and writing poetry, Adelaïde Ehrnrooth wrote travel accounts of her frequent journeys.