Margrethe Vullum (born Lehmann; first married name Rode; 14 February 1846 – 14 August 1918) was a Danish-born Norwegian journalist, literary critic and proponent for women's rights.

Personal life

She was born in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, a daughter of statesman

Orla Lehmann Peter Martin Orla Lehmann (15 May 1810 – 13 September 1870) was a Danish statesman, a key figure in the development of Denmark's parliamentary government. He was born in Copenhagen, son of (1775–1856), assessor, later conference councillor ...

and his artist wife Maria Puggaard, who had died young. She was thus a grand-daughter of the wealthy merchant and shipowner

Hans Puggaard Hans Puggaard (3 September 1788 - 8 April 1866) was a Denmark, Danish merchant and shipowner who founded H. Puggaard & Co. in 1813. The company became a leading wholesaler of grain and was also active in the market for import of goods such as coff ...

and his painter wife

Bolette Puggaard Bolette Cathrine Frederikke Puggaard née Hage (1798–1847) was a landscape painter of the Danish Golden Age, one of very few 19th-century Danish women whose art extended beyond flower paintings. She and her husband, the merchant and shipowne ...

. Her first marriage was with teacher and writer Gotfred Rode, with whom she had two sons, the politician

Ove Rode Ove Rode (31 August 1867 – 11 July 1933) was a Danish politician, writer, newspaper editor and Minister of Interior Affairs for Det Radikale Venstre. Biography As a young journalist, Rode was editor of his own newspaper, ''København'', fr ...

and the writer

Helge Rode Helge Rode (Frederiksberg, 16 October 1870 – 23 March 1937) was a Danish writer and critic, and journalist for ''Politiken'', ''Berlingske Tidende'', and ''Illustreret Tidende''. He was a son of Margrethe Rode, the brother of politician Ove Ro ...

. In 1879 she married journalist

Erik Vullum Erik Vullum (29 December 1850 – 14 March 1916) was a Norwegian journalist, writer and politician for the Liberal Party. Personal life He was born in Lund as a son of vicar Olaus Vullum (1812–1852) and his wife Ingeborg Krogness (1825–1926) ...

Career

Vullum settled in Norway in 1879, became a journalist for the newspaper ''

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'', and later for ''Verdens Gang''. She was a pioneering female voice in the public debates of the time. Among her contributions was a favorable review of the confiscated novel '' Albertine''. Her interests gradually turned more into politics. She was among the principal speakers at the demonstrations in support of the Kristiania match workers' strike of 1889. She was among the founders of the

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in 1909. A portrait of Vullum, painted by

Oda Krohg Oda Krohg (born Othilia Pauline Christine Lasson; 11 June 1860 – 19 October 1935) was a Norwegian painter, and the wife of her teacher and colleague Christian Krohg. Biography She was the second daughter of public attorney Christian ...

, is located at the

National Gallery of Norway The National Gallery ( no, Nasjonalgalleriet) is a gallery in Oslo, Norway. Since 2003 it is administratively a part of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. , the admission cost is 100 Norwegian kroner. History It was establishe ...

References

1846 births 1918 deaths People from Copenhagen 19th-century Norwegian journalists Norwegian women journalists Norwegian literary critics Women literary critics Norwegian women critics Norwegian women non-fiction writers Norwegian women's rights activists 19th-century Norwegian women writers Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people 19th-century women journalists {{norway-writer-stub