Ann-Margret Holmgren

Who was Ann-Margret Holmgren?

Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren, née Tersmeden, was a Swedish author, feminist and pacifist.

She was the daughter of the conservative politician and courtier, nobleman Jacob Nils Tersmeden and Baroness Augusta Jacquette Cederström. In 1869, she married the doctor Frithiof Holmgren, professor at Uppsala University. Their home in Uppsala, Villa Åsen, was a discussion forum for intellectual students and a centre for radical an modern ideas. Among the ideas modern in this radical circles was the introduction of a republic, democracy, suffrage, workers rights, contraception and atheism. This is thought to have given Holmgren radical sympathies, and she participated in the radical paper Verdandi in 1898-1905.

Ann Margret Holmgren was active as a writer under the pseudonym "Märta Bolle". She published Fru Stråhle. Tidsbilder ur tre släktled and När riddar Ulf suckar. Ur familjekrönikan på Höögsborg, both translated to German.

After the death of her husband in 1897, she moved to Stockholm, where was inspired by her friends Ellen Key and Lydia Wahlström to engage in gender equality.