Nya Idun

[2]Nya Idun was founded on 7 February 1885 on the premises of the Hushållsskola [sv] at Jakobsbergsgatan 11 in Stockholm.

On the founding of the organization, Calla Curman wrote, "Why shouldn't we women too, regardless of our different political and religious views, be able to come together for a mutual exchange of ideas in common intellectual, artistic and literary interests?

"[10] The association met once a month, with art exhibitions and musical and literary lectures.

On that occasion, author Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler gave a lecture on, among other things, the Victorian dress reform movement abroad, which led to the founding of the Swedish Dress Reform Association the following year.

A Swedish-language women's journal of the same name, Nya Idun, was published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1906 to 1924 by Magnhild Anderson.