page_title: Anna Hierta-Retzius
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Hierta-Retzius / Later life
caption_attribution_description: Depicted person&#58; &#32;Anna Hierta-Retzius, PROFESSORSKA Svenska: Kvinnligt porträtt. Enligt påskrift Anna Hierta-Retzius, grundare av Stockholms arbetsstugor. Arbetsstugan bildades i januari 1887.
context_page_description: Anna Wilhelmina Hierta-Retzius, née Hierta, was a Swedish women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association, founder and chairperson of the evening school Torsdagsskolan in 1864–1874, member of the board in the Bikupan association in 1870–1887, Vice Chairperson of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association in 1886–1893, member of the board of the Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas Minne in 1878-1911 and its Vice Chairperson in 1911–1924, co-worker in Aftonbladet in 1884–1887, founder of the Adolf Fredriks arbetsstuga för barn in 1887, Chairperson of the central committee of the Stockholm work houses in 1889–1909, chairperson of the Swedish National Council of Women in 1899–1911, Vice Chairperson of the International Council of Women in 1904–1909.
context_section_description: The work of Anna Hierta-Retzius entered a new phase in the 1880s. During the sexual debate of the 1880s, were new ideas of free love became fashionable, Anna Hierta-Retzius positioned herself on the conservative side. In this, she was an opponent to Ellen Key.
  Around this time became more conservative in sexual issues: she pressed for sexual censorship within literature and the cinema and a ban against birth control and sexual tuition, and required a reputation of being a moralist prude and a defender of conservative ideas, which was in many ways a change inr regard to her previous radicalism. 
  The reason for this attitude are suggested to have been caused by the discovery of her father's double life: the fact that her father had a permanent extramarital relationship with his lover, Vendela Hebbe, and had thus betrayed her mother, had been hidden from her during the life of her parents, and the discovery of her father's adultery after the death of her mother in 1878 was reportedly traumatic for her, and caused a crisis that eventually resulted in more and more strict views over the years.
  During the 1900s, she became known as a critique of the new modern radical literature. In 1912, she further more opposed woman suffrage.
  Hierta-Retzius was given Illis Quorum in 1907.
caption: A later portrait of Anna Hierta-Retzius (taken sometime after 1887)
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