Anna Rönström was a student of the Högre lärarinneseminariet in Stockholm 1864–67, and worked as a governess in Lund before she founded her own school for girls in 1871. The school was originally referred to as Rönström School (Rönströmska skolan) after its founder, and became the first school in Lund to provide secondary education to females in preparation for university studies. In this, Rönström and her school was a typical representative of other female pioneers who opened the first secondary education schools for girls in different Swedish cities, comparable to other local pioneers such as Maria Henschen in Uppsala, Maria Stenkula in Malmö and Elsa Borg in Gävle.[1] [2]