Anna Åfelt
Life
Anna Åfelt was born on 16 January 1817, in Vinslöv, Scania, Sweden, to a 22-year-old single mother, Benita Svensdotter. Being the child of an unmarried mother in the 19th century put them both in a precautious situation legally and socially.{{Cite web |translator-last=Grosjean |translator-first=Alexia |last=Hamberger |first=Agnes |title=Anna Åfelt|url=http://skbl.se/en/article/AnnaAfelt|date=2020|access-date=2021-06-12|website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon (in English)}}
From 1837 she was active in Önnestad, training to become a teacher. When the state elementary public schooling was introduced in 1842, all of its teachers were required to have a teaching degree. She applied for a dispensation, and in 1847 was the first woman to gain a primary school teaching degree in Lund.{{Cite book |editor-last=Fredriksson |editor-first=Viktor Adolf |last=Aquilonius |first=K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5sZAQAAIAAJ&q=Anna+%C3%85felt |title=Svenska folkskolans historia |volume=2: Det svenska folkundervisningsväsendet 1809-1860 |date=1942|publisher=Bonnier|language=sv}}{{Cite book|last=Jönsson|first=N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8YnAQAAMAAJ&q=Anna+%C3%85felt|title=Bland präster, bönder och gärningsmän i en gammal Göingesocken: några glimtar ur Önnestads äldre historia|date=1952|publisher=H. Möllers bokhandel|language=sv}} She retired from teaching in 1874.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dgYAQAAIAAJ&q=Anna+%C3%85felt|title=Årsböcker i Svensk Undervisningshistoria|date=1929|language=sv |publisher=Föreningen för Svensk Undervisningshistoria}}
Like her mother, she remained unmarried. Anna Åfelt died on 22 May 1884.
In 1942, on the 100th anniversary of the Swedish public schools' establishment, a memorial stone was built on her grave in Önnestad cemetery.
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