Margareta von Konow

Emma Margareta Isabella von Konow (; 17 July 1897 – 2 August 1999) was a Swedish journalist, editor, author and feminist.

Early life and education Emma Margareta Isabella von Zweigbergk was born on 17 July 1897 at the Mosseberg estate in Sandhem parish outside Falköping in Skaraborg County Her father was a landowner and a member of the Swedish nobility. When the family experienced financial problems, they moved to the Sölvesborg area. The young Margareta went to school in Karlshamn as a boarder, and was the only girl in her class to take the realskolexamen school-leaving exam. She then moved to Sävsjö, and completed her secondary school education in Jönköping as a private student, writing her 1915 university matriculation paper on Swedish writer and reformer, Fredrika Bremer.

Von Zweigbergk became interested in politics at an early age, particularly gender equality issues. She subscribed to the journal Rösträtt för kvinnor (Voting Rights for Women), published by the National Association for Women's Suffrage (LKPR), from its inception in 1912. In Sävsjö, she attended lectures at the local branch of the LKPR, and graduated from Lund University in 1918 with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature, German, English and Political Science. While studying in Lund, she was secretary of the (Female Student Association), and was a key participant in the first female student play performed in Lund by writing and performing a play called Justitia or sic framåt gloria mundi. She then travelled the country speaking for the LKPR while working as a substitute teacher at Norrköping Girls' School.

During the years when she had small children at home, she was a member of Stocksund municipal council 1935–1939, secretary of the Nya Idun Society 1938–1940 and vice-chairman 1940–1941. In the 1960s she continued to serve as secretary of Minerva, the Sveriges Författarförbund's non-fiction section.