[2] Emma Margareta Isabella von Zweigbergk was born on 17 July 1897 at the Mosseberg estate in Sandhem parish outside Falköping in Skaraborgs län,[1] to Magna Noring (b.

She then moved to Sävsjö, and completed her secondary school education in Jönköping as a private student, writing her 1915 university matriculation paper on Swedish writer and reformer, Fredrika Bremer.

In Sävsjö, she attended lectures at the local branch of the LKPR, and graduated from Lund University in 1918 with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature, German, English and Political Science.

[4] With her degree in languages, and with good contacts, in 1919 Margareta von Zweigbergk got a job at Skandinaviska Banken in Stockholm handling the bank's foreign correspondence.

[3] When her first child was born in 1931, von Konow was no longer allowed to work at Nya Dagligt Allehanda, due to the employment laws of the time.

Her call for a different composition of the inquiry was not immediately heeded, but her employer, the FBF, took the initiative to set up the Svenska kvinnoföreningars radiokommitté (Swedish Women's Organisations Radio Committee) (1933–1937), and von Konow became its secretary.

[4] As Margareta von Konow approached retirement age, she made her debut as a fiction writer in 1962 with the poetry collection Den stängda porten: dikter.