Career
She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality and a contributor of several radical progressive publications. She was engaged in the women suffrage movement and several humanitarian organisations. During the World World War II, she participated in anti-fascist work.
Frida Stéenhoff was a leading central figure for the free love movement in Sweden, for sex and romance without marriage and birth control, and critical toward the institution of marriage, subjects for which she became controversially known by her debut novel: Lejonets unge (Lion"s Child) from 1896.
She used the male pseudonym: Harald Gate.