Alexandra Gripenberg

Alexandra Gripenberg, also known as Alexandra van Grippenberg, (1857 – 24 December 1913) was a Finnish social activist, author, editor, newspaper publisher, and elected politician, and was a leading voice within the movement for women's rights in Finland at the turn of the 20th century.

[3] Between 1887 and 1888, she traveled in England and the United States, to study lessons from the women's movements of those countries.

The tour inspired her book A Half Year in the New World published in 1889.

The same year she also founded one of the earliest Finnish women's magazines, Koti ja Yhteiskunta, which was published until December 1911.

[4] Gripenberg was also the editor-in-chief of the magazine which acted as the organ of the Suomen Naisyhdistys.