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56 Ellen Key
At twenty, she had begun holding "Sunday-
school" for the young people on the estate
during the summers, which the family still
always spent at Sundsholm, and here she
taught history, natural science, literature, etc.,
and loaned out books from the little "Folk-
library" she had herself founded by adding
some new volumes to her own old books.
From girlhood, and long before the movement
for the education of the masses had become the
fashion, Ellen Key had busied herself in such
work, giving of her working time as well as
her leisure hoiu*s. Alone, she dwelt with
thoughts which, when she later expressed
them in print, she was accused of having
borrowed from abroad
When Ellen was a few years past twenty,
she received an offer to begin as a teacher,
and later become principal of a Folk-high-
school for girls in Skane, in which some of
her father's senatorial friends were interested.
With this position in view, she spent the sum-
mer of 1874 in Denmark, studying the fore-
most schools of that kind, principally those of
Vallekilde, Testrup, and Askov. When Ellen,
in her own profound way, had thoroughly
inspected these important institutions, she
came to the conclusion that she was too
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