Valborg Olander

Valborg Olander (Uddeholm Manor, Värmland 14 May 1861 – 27 February 1943) was a Swedish teacher, politician and suffragette.

Valborg Olander was born as one of five children to the medical doctor Gustaf Achilles and Eva Charlotta Munktell.

Olander was educated at a girls' school in Jönköping, and at Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm at the age of fifteen in 1876.

After graduation in 1879, she worked as a teacher in Lidköping in 1879–80, at the elementary for girls in Gothenburg in 1880–88 and, from 1888 until 1916, at the people's academy in Falun.

She was active as a writer both as a suffragette and as a teacher, and published works about the Swedish language with the linguist and lexicographer Gustaf Cederschiöld.