[2] She is regarded as a pioneer in her field and was the founder of Skolhemmet för blinda dövstumma ('School Home for the Blind Deafmute'), renamed the Drottning Sofias stiftelse ('Queen Sophia Foundation') in Skara, and its principal in from 1886 1921.

[3] She visited Perkins School for the Blind in Boston in 1886, to study the methods used to educate Laura Bridgman and other deafblind students there.

She attended and spoke at an international conference on deaf education at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis,[4] and met with Helen Keller and First Lady Edith Roosevelt.

[1] Elisabet Anrep married the deaf educator Pehr Fredrik Stanislaus Nordin [sv] in 1879, in Stockholm.

They had four children, including her eldest son, Gösta, who was a medical student when he died in New York in 1904,[7] and Birger Anrep-Nordin [sv] (1888–1946), a musician and composer.