Helena Westermarck (1857 - 1938)

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Education	Higher education, Other, School education
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Memberships	Naisasialiitto Unioni
Place(s) of Residence	Finland , Paris

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Ur studieboken I-II, berättelser och utkast (From the sketch pad I-II, stories and drafts) (1890) Framåt. Berättelse (1894) George Eliot. En literär studie (1894) George Eliot. En literär studie (1894) Till Unionens medlemmar (1896) Harriet Beecher-Stowes lif (1896) Nyländska folksagor berättade för ungdom af Helena Westermarck (Folktales from Uusimaa told to youth by Helena Westermarck) (1897) Lifvets veger. Berättelse (1898) I fru Ulrikas hem. Interiör från farmödrarnas tid. (1900) Tecken och minneskrift från adertonhundratalet (I fru Ulrikas hem) (*Signs and notes from the 19th century) (1900) Ljud i natten. Berättelse. (1903) Fredrika Runeberg. En literär Studie (1904) Dolda makter (1905) Bönhörelse. En historia (1909) Vandrare (1910) Mathilda Rotkirch. Finlands första målarinna (1926) Adelaïde Ehrnrooth. Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv (1928) Finland's första kvinnliga läkare Rosina Heikel. Kvinnospår i finländskt kulturliv (1930) Maria Wiik. En biografisk studie (1937)

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Westermarck was a painter, a writer and a suffragette. Westermarck was a student in the drawing school in Helsinki 1874-1877, and after that she continued to study in the guidance of the painter Adolf von Becker until 1880. Westermarck moved to Paris in 1880 and studied in the Académie Colarossi 1880-1881 and in 1884. In Finland she worked in the feminist organization Naisasialiitto Unioni when it was founded. She also wrote essays and art reviews.