[5] Nancy Edberg was employed as a swimming instructor at the newly founded bath house for women in Stockholm in 1847.

Her ideas met a strong degree of push back with comments including “does mademoiselle intend to drown people?”.

When the queen and her daughter themselves joined the class, ice skating quickly became fashionable and accepted for women, and the fence was pulled down.

[6] In 1865, she introduced swimming for women in Oslo in Norway,[2] and then travelled to Saint Petersburg in Russia on a scholarship and recommendation from the royal couple to the Russian Emperor and Empress.

[2] Edberg introduced swimming for women in Copenhagen, Trondhjem and a multitude of Swedish cities "from Ystad to Östersund".