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The Last Years in Stockholm 141
Society is to see to it that notables visiting
Stockholm are brought into contact with the
intellectual world of the capital. Ellen Key
proposed Dr. Ellen Fries as the first president
and was induced to take the vice-presidency
herself ; but when Ellen Fries sent in her resig-
nation on account of illness, the Society urged
Ellen Key to become president, and this office
she held for many years. One of the members,
writing about her in this capacity, says:
"Ellen Key possesses all the qualities which
grace a chairman—perfect delivery, dignity,
and humour combined, in bom eagerness to
bring souls together, impartiality in the most
chivalrous manner, broad culture, warm in-
terest in everything, a genius for arrangement
without being practical in the ordinary sense,
and finally a great ability quickly to make a
position clear and to decide upon a course.
In addition to the annoying persecution,
which ensued after the controversy on the
woman question, it may be mentioned that
intrigues played their part in New Idun in
an endeavour to rem.ove Ellen Key from the
presidency which she had filled so well. But
as this Society had a number of high-minded
and upright women among its members, this
plot failed entirely, and Ellen Key was retained
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