Fruntimmersföreningens flickskola

Fruntimmerföreningens flickskola (The Girl School of the Women's Society), was a Girls' School in Gothenburg in Sweden active between 1815 and 1938. At the time of the introduction of the compulsory elementary school in Sweden in 1842, it was one of five schools in Sweden to provide academic education to females; the others being Brödraförsamlingens flickskola i Göteborg (1786) and Kjellbergska flickskolan (1833) in Gothenburg, Askersunds flickskola (1812) in Askersund and Wallinska skolan (1831) in Stockholm.

The school's purpose was to provide education to make it possible for females to support themselves professionally, which separated it from the previous girls schools, which had the task to educate their students to ideal wives and mothers, and it was thereby a part of the wave of a new form of girls schools which was established in Sweden in the 19th-century. The school was founded by a society of women philanthropists headed by Betty Scott, Marie Lamberg and Lovisa Lamberg. In 1876, in accordance with the Girl School Committee of 1866, the school was given government support.

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