Maria Cederschiöld, (1856 - 1935), was a Swedish journalist and feminist.

Cederschiöld studied in Uppsala and graduated in 1874. After having worked as a teacher, she became a reporter at Aftonbladet in 1884. She wrote foreign news articles and reviewed literature as a critic. In 1909-1921, she was chief editor responsible for the paper's foreign news department.

Maria Cederschiöld was also a feminist, and as such, was internationally known. She was the secretary and later vice chairman of the Swedish suffrage movement and acted as her country's representative in many international suffrage meetings.

[edit] Works

• Lars Johan Hierta och kvinnas rätt i samhället (Lars Johan Hierta and the rights of women in society) 1901
• Den svenska gifta kvinnans rättsliga ställning (The legal position of the married Swedish woman) 1903
• En banbryterska. En minnesskrift över Ellen Fries (A pioneer. A memorial over Ellen Fries) 1913

[edit] See also

• Vendela Hebbe

[edit] References

• Österberg, Carin et al., Svenska kvinnor: föregångare, nyskapare (Swedish women; Predecessors, pioneers). Lund: Signum 1990. (ISBN 91-87896-03-6)