Born in
Karlskrona in 1867, Ellen Emma Augusta Kleman was the daughter of Commander Carl Kleman (1820–1872) and Johanna Augusta Grahm (1825–1904). Her older sister,
Anna Kleman (1862–1940), was also active in the women's movement. After attending the girls' school in Karlskrona, she worked in banks in
Uppsala and
Stockholm. Kleman was an avid supporter of women's rights. In 1907, she became editor of
Dagny, the principal organ of the women's movement. She wrote many of the articles herself, including accounts of women's conventions and biographies of notable women. When
Dagny ceased publication in 1913, she became the editor of its replacement
Hertha from 1914 to 1932. In 1921, she served on the board of the
Fredrika Bremer Association, the Swedish women's rights organization, chairing its Stockholm chapter from 1922 to 1931. She became strongly interested in the association's founder, Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), publishing a collection of essays about her. Together with her friend
Klara Johanson, with whom she lived from 1912 until she died, Kleman published four large volumes of Bremer's letters. In addition to her writings on the women's movement, Kleman published a historical novel titled
Fabian Wendts hustru (Fabian Wendt's Wife) about women who have been manipulated and guided by others, without any opportunity for self-development. ==Awards==