Ellen Key Critical Essay | Critical Essay by Nancy M. Schoonmaker

Critical Essay by Nancy M. Schoonmaker

SOURCE: "Ellen Key's Ideals of Love and Marriage," in Current History, Vol. 24, No. 4, July, 1926, pp. 529-32.

In the following essay, Schoonmaker eulogizes Key and provides an overview of her views.

With the passing of Ellen Key, who died at her home in the south of Sweden on April 25, 1926, there is brought vividly to mind again the contribution which this woman was privileged to make to the thought of her age. The seventy-seven years of her life fell in a time when great currents of progress and change were sweeping over the world. Born in an age and country in which the reactionary forces were altogether dominant, before such forces had even been made fully articulate by resisting such opposition as later massed against them for their eventual overthrow, she lived to see laws and customs and the thought of the world liberalized to an almost...
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