Clara Tschudi (9 September 1856 – 10 November 1945) was a Norwegian writer. She was born in

Tønsberg Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative c ...

. She is best known for her biographies of contemporary and historical women. Among her publications are the book ''Kvindebevægelsen, dens Udvikling og nuværende Standpunkt'' from 1885, and ''Tre Nutidskvinder'' from 1887, where she biographed women's rights activists

Camilla Collett Jacobine Camilla Collett (née Wergeland; 23 January 1813 – 6 March 1895) was a Norwegian writer, often referred to as the first Norwegian feminist. She was also the younger sister of Norwegian poet Henrik Wergeland, and is recognized as bein ...

Lina Morgenstern Lina Morgenstern (25 November 1830 – 16 December 1909) was a German writer, educator, feminist and pacifist. Biography She was born 25 November 1830 in Wrocław (German Breslau) to a Jewish family committed to social causes. In 1854 she mar ...

and Gertrude Guillaume-Schack. Her book ''Kejserinde Eugenie'' from 1889 was the first of as series of biographical portraits of central women of European Royal families. A German translation of her book on

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was subsequently forbidden in Austria. She resided in

Gausdal Gausdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Segalstad bru. Other villages in Gausdal include Follebu, Forse ...

, and died in November 1945.

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* 1856 births 1945 deaths Writers from Tønsberg Norwegian biographers Norwegian women writers Norwegian women's rights activists People from Gausdal Women biographers Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people Litteris et Artibus recipients {{norway-writer-stub