Mathilde Schjøtt | |
Birth Name: | Mathilde Dunker |
Birth Date: | 19 February 1844 |
Birth Place: | Christiania, Norway |
Death Place: | Oslo |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Spouse: | Peter Olrog Schjøtt |
Children: | Sofie Schjøtt |
Parents: | Bernhard Dunker Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt |
Relatives: | Conradine Birgitte Dunker (grandmother) Vilhelmine Ullmann (aunt) |
Occupation: | Writer Playwright Literary critic |
Mathilde Schjøtt (née Dunker) (19 February 1844 - 13 January 1926) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse in 1871. She was a literary critic for the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift, and her play Rosen was published anonymously in this periodical in 1882.[1] [2] She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884, and a member its first board. She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.[1]
Schjøtt was born in Christiania on 19 February 1944,[1] a daughter of Bernhard Dunker and Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt. She married the philologist and politician Peter Olrog Schjøtt in 1867, and they were the parents of Sofie Schjøtt.[3]