Background
Rosalie Ulrika Roos was born into a wealthy family. She grew up in Stockholm and was among the first students at the Wallinska flickskolan in Stockholm, one of the oldest girls" school in Sweden dating to 1831.
Rosalie Ulrika Roos was born into a wealthy family. She grew up in Stockholm and was among the first students at the Wallinska flickskolan in Stockholm, one of the oldest girls" school in Sweden dating to 1831.
She is one of the three great pioneers of the organized women"s rights movement in Sweden, alongside Fredrika Bremer and Sophie Adlersparre. The family moved in 1839 to Sjogeris at the foot of the mountainous plateau, Mösseberg in Västergötland. She traveled to the United States in 1851, and stayed there for four years.
She later wrote a description of her stay and of the culture of the American South.
She did not notice any abuse of the slaves herself, but she considered slavery to be unnatural and "emotionally disgusting," and was convinced that its abolition was unavoidable, though it would meet with much resistance. She returned to Sweden in 1855.
The paper was a feminist publication, which argued for women"s rights, particularly the right to higher education and profession. They wrote many of the articles themselves.
lieutenant was published in Stockholm from 1859 to 1885.
In 1861, Roos and Adlersparre made a journey through Germany, France, England, Scotland and Ireland to compare the difference within the feminist movements, and reported that the movement was little known in Germany and France in comparison to Great Britain. In 1864, she took part in the founding of Svenska Röda Korset (Swedish Red Cross) with Adlersparre, General Major Rudebeck, and Doctor Lemchen.