Career
She was one of the first women elected to the Swedish parliament. Nelly Thüring was a shop clerk in 1890-1896 and thereafter a photographer 1896-1933. In 1921, she became one of the five first women to be elected to the Swedish Parliament after women were allowed to vote.
She was elected alongside Agda Östlund (Social Democrat), Bertha Wellin (Conservative) and Elisabeth Tamm (liberal) in the lower chamber, and Kerstin Hesselgren in the upper chamber.
