[3] It is the world's oldest feminist magazine, a continuation of Home Review founded in 1859.

[4][5] Hertha was the successor to the magazine Dagny, which was started when Sophie Adlersparre founded the Fredrika Bremer Association in 1884.

The magazine's history dates back to 1859, when Sophie Adlersparre and Rosalie Roos published Tidskrift för hemmet ('Home Review') to "give knowledge and insights to women in the spiritual sphere".

[3] Among the writers for Hertha during its first decades were Elin Wägner, Emilia Fogelklou, Lydia Wahlström, Klara Johanson, Gurli Linder and Ida von Plomgren.

She also became committee secretary to the Swedish women’s associations’ radio committee (1933-1937), set up by the FBF when von Konow's challenge to the minister of communication on the absence of women in the government inquiry into the new technology – radio - was ignored.