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62 Ellen Key
Ellen Key never had to fight her way to
intellectual activity, a struggle quite common
for young women in those days, when parents
in the circles to which she belonged, rather
wished their daughters to be shielded from the
new ideas of education, graduation, and other
unwomanly attainments. We have seen that
Fru Key had rather encouraged Ellen to
exercise her talents, and she had often pro-
posed this or that career for her. Her mother
wanted her to take some examination, and
concentrate her power in one direction. But
the young daughter had remained immovable.
"It was Sundsholm's scenery, my books, my
little room, my thoughts and dreams I could
not bear to leave, " said Ellen once. Her feel-
ing for this home was her strongest emotion in
youth. Once, when she was eight years old,
and away on a visit with her mother, the
latter was awakened by her little daughter's
sobbing. She had been unable to sleep for
fear that Sundsholm might bum before she
could reach home! Her love for her child-
hood home increased through fear of losing it,
a fear which darkened her life from her six-
teenth year. During the winters in Stock-
holm she used to follow the weather-reports
from the home county with trembling heart.
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