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6 Ellen Key
Marie Louise, married to Baron Cari Raab of
Helgerum.
Through Ellen Key's mother, Sophie Posse,
royal and old aristocratic blood was fused into
the family. German emperors are among
the ancestors,—Karl the Great, Fredrik the
Second Hohenstauen, and many other princes,
if the table of genealogy can be trusted.
Ellen Key's forefathers have been squires
and statesmen, judges and warriors. None
of them has been a clergyman.
Another circumstance connected with her
origin is noteworthy. Ellen Key has grown
up in Southern Tjust, one of the most beauti-
ful parts of Smaland, where her paternal
family had lived for centuries. Her mother's
family came from Skane. And although her
ancestors had all belonged to the aristocracy,
and had enriched their stock by intermarriage
with families outside of their own province,
it is more than likely that the characteristics
of the national disposition in these two south-
ern provinces have exercised a certain influence.
May not the indomitable will and strength
in Ellen Key be due in part to her Smaland
origin, and may not her desire for contempla-
tion, her tranquillity and introspection, come
from Skane?
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