Author Nils Hjort and illustrator Maria Persson released the book "Dramatic ladies - Seventy-five portraits from five hundred years" in September this year. Now comes a calendar for 2020 with historical women from Jönköping.

- What I find most exciting about writing local stories is the feeling I have felt when I have been home and working and then gone into town and discovered that - this is where she lived, says Nils.

Gerda Planting-Golden Arch.

Among women, celebrities like Ebba Ramsay and Wendela Hebbe are mixed with more unknown people like Gerda Planting-Gyllenbåga and Valborg Svensson. But it is Gerda who lies Nils warmest about the heart.

- She was very much appreciated in Huskvarna and sat in the city council as early as 1910, almost ten years before women were given universal suffrage.