Aurore Pihl
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Aurora (Aurore) Marie Pihl (1850–1938) was a Swedish educator and suffragist. She is remembered for establishing a girls' school in Norrköping in 1880 and for contributing significantly to the campaign for women's suffrage. In 1903, she co-founded Norrköping's Women's Suffrage Association where she was deputy chair until 1910. She shared management of the Norra flickläroverket until 1890 after which she was the sole principal until her retirement in 1916.[1][2][3]
Born in Hällestad, Östergötland, in south-eastern Sweden on 24 September 1850, Aurora Maria Pihl was the daughter of the crown bailiff Per Johan Pihl and his wife Aurora Ulrika Kristina née André. She went to school in Askersund until she was 13, living with an aunt while she was there. Hoping to become a schoolteacher, she received private education until 1877 when she entered the Royal Seminary, a teachers' training college for women in Stockholm. She received her teaching diploma in 1880.[4]
