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About Märtha Brydolf
- Märtha Sofia Elisabeth Brydolf (March 21, 1868 – March 29, 1956) was a Swedish politician and journalist.The daughter of Jacob Forssblad and Augusta Carlberg, she was born Märtha Sofia Elisabeth Forssblad on a farm near Hjo.
- At first, she was schooled at home but then attended elementary school in Jönköping.
- The family farm was sold in 1882 and the whole family moved to Jönköping.
- Her mother died when she was sixteen.
- She studied languages in France and Switzerland and then went to England, where she pursued further studies in languages and worked as a governess.
- She returned to Jönköping when she was 21 and taught English and French at the girls' school.
- She also translated news stories and wrote articles for regional newspapers including Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning and Stockholms-Tidningen.
- She also contributed to weekly journals such as Husmodern, Idun and Vårt Hem.In 1898, she married Erik Brydolf, a doctor.
- They moved to Kristinehamn that same year.
- The couple had four children.
- Her husband later died in 1939.She returned to work as a journalist in 1910.
- In 1916, she established a women's group associated with the right-wing party Allmänna valmansförbundet (AVF) in Kristinehamn, which later became the national women's organization Nationalförbundet för Värmlands Kvinnoklubb.
- She served as its first chair.
- She was chair of the Länskvinnoråd ("Regional women's council") from 1919 to 1942.
- Brydolf was elected to the first board of the Central Kvinnoråd ("Central women's council") of the AVF in 1921 and later served as its vice-chair.She was also chair of the local Red Cross and of the Kristinehamn Husmodersförening ("Housewives' association") in Kristinehamn.
- She was elected to the Kristinehamn municipal council in 1922, serving until 1938.In 1949, Brydolf moved to a retirement home in Kristinehamn.
- She died there at the age of 88.
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