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Mathilda (or ''Mathilde'') Foy (or ''Foj''), (10 November 1813 – 1 November 1869), was a Swedish philanthropist and writer, known for her charitable work. She is known as a pioneer of the Sunday school, and as the co-founder of the charity organisation "Fruntimmerssällskapet för fångars förbättring" (English: The Women Society for the Improvement of Prisoners) in 1854. == Biography == She was the daughter of the British Consul (representative) in Stockholm, George Foy and his Swedish wife Mathilda Augusta Skoge.〔Gustaf Näsström, Det gamla Medevi, Stockholm 1928, 2/1929, R/1978, kapitel "Mamsell Foy och löjtnant Björnstjerna"〕〔http://www.mormor.se/default.aspx?lang=SE&articleId=1929〕 In 1851, Foy was, alongside among others Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess), in the board of directors at the newly founded Deaconess Institution, the first one in Sweden, founded that same year in Stockholm〔Elisabeth Christiansson, ''”Först och framför allt själen” – diakonins tankevärld omkring år 1850'': Sköndalsinstitutets Arbetsrapportserie nr 32 http://www.esh.se/fileadmin/erstaskondal/ESH_Gemensamt/Arbetsrapporter/arbetsrapport_32.pdf〕 In 1854, she co-founded the "Fruntimmersällskapet för fångars förbättring" together with Fredrika Bremer, Maria Cederschiöld (deaconess), Betty Ehrenborg and Emilia Elmblad. The purpose was to visit female prisoners to provide moral support and improve their character by studies of religion. They were met by resistance among the prisoners authorities, also the prison priest. Betty Ehrenborg took charge of the vagrants, Maria Cederschiöld the thieves and Mathilda Foy the child murderers, while Bremer jumped in where she was needed until Ehrenborg retired, after which she took over the vagrants, among whom she felt very comfortable : .〔〔Lotten Dahlgren, 'Fredrika Bremer bland lösdriverskorna', i Hertha, XVII/1, januari 1930 http://mathilda.new-renaissance.com〕 Foy wrote several times about the Emilie Petersen, known as "Mormor på Herrestad" (The Herrestad Grandmother), a woman famed for her charitable work institutions on her estate, whom she often visited. In 1868, Mathilda Foy and Maria Cederschiöld founded a Deaconess institute in Jämtland and Norway.〔 http://skeptron.uu.se/pers/monicaz-091202/ffo/kapital/cederskiold-marie.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mathilda Foy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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