Sophie Bolander

Sophie Christina Mathilda Bolander (28 January 1807 – 2 June 1869),[1] was a Swedish author.

She worked as a governess in the household of count Posse in 1838–1844, and as a music teacher in the Kjellbergska flickskolan in 1845–1855.

Fredrika Bremer remarked about this, that Sophie Bolander was only prepared to meet her halfway.

However, Bolander was, in this respect, supporting a common view among contemporary moderate reformists.

Her novel Qvinnan med förmyndare (Woman with Guardian) was a conservative response to the novel Qvinnan utan förmyndare (Woman without Guardian) by Amelie von Strussenfelt, which was a part of the contemporary debate about the minority of adult unmarried women, who were legally under the guardianship of their closest male relative.