Hanna Lindmark (1860-1941), was a Swedish businessperson. She was born as one of 22 children in a poor crofting family in Ångermanland. Her mother died during the Swedish famine of 1867–1869 and she was sold at the age of nine at a child auction. She was a follower of the Anna Johansdotter Norbäck sect. As a foster child, she worked as a maidservant and eventually as an appreciated cook. She was employed in 1899 as a cook and a manager at a restaurant belonging to YWCA-YMCA of Sweden, which was eventually able to buy. She was the founder of the Margareta schools from 1905 onward, a chain of home economics schools with associated restaurants, shops and function halls, which became a nationwide success and made her a rich entrepreneur. References 1860 births 1941 deaths 20th-century Swedish businesspeople 20th-century Swedish businesswomen 20th-century Swedish educators