Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir
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Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir
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Þorbjörg Sveinsdóttir was an Icelandic midwife and feminist, particularly known for her work for women's right to education. She was born in Iceland to an Icelandic priest. She educated herself as a midwife in Copenhagen in Denmark in 1855–1856, and then returned to Iceland, where she worked as a midwife in Reykjavík until 1902. As such she took many midwife students. She never married, but became the foster mother of her orphaned niece, the writer and feminist Ólafía Jóhannsdóttir. She was acti
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Icelandic midwife and feminist
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2022-01-24T18:31:17Z
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