Nya Idun

{{Lang|sv|Nya Idun|italic=no}} was founded on 7 February 1885 on the premises of the {{Interlanguage link|Hushållsskola|sv}} at Jakobsbergsgatan 11 in Stockholm.{{Cite book |last1=Bagerius |first1=Henric |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776489584 |title=Moderna historier: skönlitteratur i det moderna samhällets framväxt |last2=Lagerlöf Nilsson |first2=Ulrika |date=2011 |publisher=Nordic Academic Press |isbn=978-91-85509-65-2 |location=Lund |language=sv |oclc=776489584 |access-date=2022-03-18 |archive-date=2022-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321184813/https://www.worldcat.org/title/moderna-historier-skonlitteratur-i-det-moderna-samhallets-framvaxt/oclc/776489584 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=I vimlet. Mötesplatser för kvinnosak och kultur kring sekelskiftet 1900 |url=http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/p-bokholm-011004.htm |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=www.skeptron.uu.se |language=sv |archive-date=2016-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308205747/http://www.skeptron.uu.se/broady/sec/p-bokholm-011004.htm |url-status=live }} Its founders were Calla Curman, Hanna Winge, Ellen Fries, Ellen Key and Amelie Wikström.{{Cite web |last=Linder |first=Gurli |title=Calla Curman (f. Lundström) |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=15740 |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon |language=sv |archive-date=2021-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117124640/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=15740 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Pettersson |first=Cecelia |title=Calla Curman |url=http://skbl.se/en/article/CallaCurman |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |language=sv |archive-date=2021-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116153013/https://skbl.se/en/article/CallaCurman |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Hildebrand |first=Bengt |title=Ellen Fries |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=14483 |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon |language=sv |archive-date=2022-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201035208/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=14483 |url-status=live }} The first fifteen women elected to the association's committee were Alfhild Agrell, Lilly Engström, Selma Giöbel, Therese Gyldén, Anna Höjer, Amanda Kerfstedt, Anne Charlotte Leffler, Hulda Lundin, Agda Montelius, Anna Munthe-Norstedt, Mathilda Roos, Anna Sandström, Hilma Svedbom, Anna Whitlock, and Coraly Zethræus.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-09 |title=Idunesen – vem var hon? |url=http://nyaidun.se/sallskapet-nya-idun/sallskapets-syfte/ |access-date=2022-03-18 |language=sv-SE |archive-date=2022-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309050511/http://nyaidun.se/sallskapet-nya-idun/sallskapets-syfte/ |url-status=live }}

The association's model was Sällskapet Idun in Stockholm, founded in 1862, which, according to its statutes, was for "men living in Stockholm who have their own activities and interests in science, literature and art in various fields".{{Cite web |date=2014-03-19 |title=Sällskapets historia |url=https://idun1862.se/historia/ |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=Sällskapet Idun |language=sv-SE |archive-date=2021-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613193532/https://idun1862.se/historia/ |url-status=live }} {{Lang|sv|Sällskapet Idun|italic=no}} accepted only male members, and {{Lang|sv|Nya Idun|italic=no}} was formed to serve as a counterpart for women.

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?"{{Cite book |last=Curman |first=Calla |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939826240 |title=Minnen |date=2012 |publisher=Dejavu |others=Holmberg |isbn=978-91-7451-405-6 |edition=New |location=Stockholm |language=sv |oclc=939826240 |access-date=2022-03-18 |archive-date=2022-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321184755/https://www.worldcat.org/title/minnen/oclc/939826240 |url-status=live }}

The association met once a month, with art exhibitions and musical and literary lectures. Its first meeting was attended by 20 people. 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.{{Cite web |title=Svenska dräktreformföreningen |url=http://www.kvinnofronten.nu/Formodrar/Special/Kvinnoorganisationer/draktreformforeningen.htm |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=www.kvinnofronten.nu |language=sv |archive-date=2022-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318091554/http://www.kvinnofronten.nu/Formodrar/Special/Kvinnoorganisationer/draktreformforeningen.htm |url-status=live }}

The association still exists for women academics and artists of various kinds.

A Swedish-language women's journal of the same name, {{Lang|sv|Nya Idun}}, was published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 1906 to 1924 by Magnhild Anderson.{{Cite book |last=Ander |first=Oscar Fritiof |url=https://archive.org/details/culturalheritage00ande |title=The cultural heritage of the Swedish immigrant: Selected references |publisher=Augustana Book Concern |year=1956 |location=Rock Island, Ill. |pages=169 |oclc=484008473}}{{Cite book |last=Skarstedt |first=Ernst |url=https://runeberg.org/svamfolket/0184.html |title=Svensk-amerikanska folket i helg och söcken : strödda blad ur svensk-amerikanernas historia, deras öden och bedrifter, nederlag och segrar, livsintressen och förströelser, jämte biografiska uppgifter om ett antal märkesmän |publisher=Björck & Börjesson |year=1917 |pages=176 |language=sv |oclc=866595654 |author-link=Ernst Skarstedt |access-date=9 June 2022 |archive-date=9 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609115609/http://runeberg.org/svamfolket/0184.html |url-status=live }}

There was also an early 20th-century Swedish women's journal with the name Idun, published from 1887 to 1963.{{Cite web |title=Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek: Idun |url=http://www2.ub.gu.se/kvinn/portaler/kvinnotidskrifter/idun/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Gothenburg University Library |language=sv}}

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• {{Cite book |title=Nordisk familjebok |year=1914 |edition=2nd |language=sv |chapter=Nya Idun}}
• {{Cite book |last=Gyllenbok |first=Jan |title=I gott sällskap - Om sällskapslivet i Sverige |year=2008 |location=Malmö |pages=40 |language=sv}}

• [https://nyaidun.se/ Sällskapet Nya Idun] – the association's homepage {{inlang|sv}}

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