52 Ellen Key ambition nor initiative can be counted among her traits. For a number of years she was a student in the Misses Rossander's School of Instruction for Women; later becoming a teacher there in geography, and where she gave her first regular lecture on her beloved Geijer. ' Here she also learned to know Anna Whitlock' and Julia Kjellberg, later married to the socialist von VoUmar, two friends with whom she has ever since kept in close touch. Ellen Key's love of the soil, of the childhood- home, soon grew to embrace her whole native land. The feeling of patriotism waxed strong within her. The day following the memorable December night when, after decades of obstinate struggle, the representation by Four Classes ceased, and the new system of Two Houses was adop- ted, Sophie Key and her daughter Ellen at- tended an evening party, and heard their friends on every hand deplore the outcome, while they alone rejoiced. Ellen, at this time not quite sixteen, was so deeply moved that, ' A great Swedish poet.—Translator's footnote. ' Now well known as a pedagogue, and also prominent in the Woman Movement.—Translator's footnote.