Background
She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping.
journalist linguist translator
She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping.
She worked for some time as a governess in the country side, and studied at Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm 1878-1881, after which she returned to teaching.
In 1899, she was the first of her sex to be a delegate at the international journalist conference in Rome, where she represented Swedish paper NDA.
In 1902, she was one of the founders of the Country Association for Women"s Suffrage and was a member of the board there in 1912-1921.