Anna Bugge

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Anna Wicksell Bugge (born in Egersund, Norway, 1862, died 1928) was a Norwegian feminist. She helped found the debate society Skuld in high school. She was the chairman of Norwegian Women's Rights Union (January 1888 till June 1889) after the debate on morality brought on by Ragna Nielsen's resignation.

Bugge was in particular interested in concrete reforms; She was more occupied with the social and economic reasons for the suppression of women, rather than spiritual discussions on morality and codes of conduct. In articles from the Women's Rights Union's periodical Nylænde, she emphasized women's economic independence as a necessity for their liberation. In spirit of this she was also occupied with education and organizing of women. She was one of the teachers in the "free education for women", which was initiated by other feminists. She held lectures on women's professional education and stressed that women should be allowed as apprentices in craftsmanship. In Nylænde, she spoke warm-heartedly about a pension fund for housekeepers. Bugge participated actively promoting women's suffrage, and in 1888 she traveled around in Norway as a member of the Kvindestemmeretsforening to further promote this cause.

In 1889, Bugge married Knut Wicksell and left Norway for Sweden, her new husband's homeland. She became a Candidate of Law at the University of Lund, Sweden, in 1911. As a result of her political work there, she became a member of the League of Nations' permanent mandate commission in 1921, their first female member. She there represented Sweden as a diplomat.

Today, a street in Egersund, Norway, is named after her, "Buggebakken", and in Sweden a memorial coin with her motif is in the planning.

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