Ancestry 1 Fru Key was always willing to promote her daughter Ellen's general interests. At the latter's request she several times took dis- charged women-prisoners into her service. Her hatred for all social injustices was deep- felt and sincere. Ellen Key once told of an amusing situation in their home-life. Fru Key much enjoyed reading the fiery paper, Fdderneslandet, which came in the mail to a Republican-minded neighbour, who had christ- ened his sons America and California! Hen- Key was wont to make a joke of the fact that his wife's views tended to coincide with those of the paper. Ellen Key adds: '' In our days my mother would certainly have been an anarchist. I generally sided with her against my father, who was more moderate and did not consider the murder of tyrants quite as helpful to society as did we!" We here get a good view of Ellen Key's passion for freedom and hatred of oppression as nourished by her mother's radicalism. Fru Sophie Key was one of those rare natures capable of boundless devotion, and she was therefore indispensable to her hus- band. Always delicate, she practised a re- markable self-control, that she might not be a burden to him. Never indulging herself, she