Sophie Marguerite Oxholm née Bech (25 December 1848 – 3 September 1935) was a Danish noblewoman who was active in the initial planning of the

1895 Copenhagen Women's Exhibition The Women's Exhibition from the Past and Present ( da, Kvindernes Udstilling fra Fortid og Nutid) held in Copenhagen in 1895 was an art and culture exhibition for women from the Nordic countries. Inspired by the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, it ...

. She was the owner of Rosenfeldt at

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from 1914 to 1935.

Early life and family

Born on 25 December 1848 in

Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie ( ), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it) is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsi ...

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, Sophie Oxholm Bech was the daughter of the Danish consul, Edvard Bech (1812–1873), and Charlotte Elizabeth née McCarthy (1812–1900). On 9 September 1892, she married the estate owner and nobleman Carl O'Neill Oxholm of Rosenfeldt (1843–1914), a son of Maj. Gen. Oscar O'Neill Oxholm.

The Women's Exhibition in Copenhagen

Oxholm, who had visited the

1893 World's Fair The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...

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, was impressed by its presentations, especially the show of Danish needlework. On her return to Denmark, she immediately brought a number of influential women together with a view to arranging a Nordic women's exhibition in Copenhagen the following year. Despite initial enthusiasm, as a result of budgetary and management problems, it was announced in February 1894 that the exhibition would not be held until 1895. After experiencing difficulty in managing the arrangements, Oxholm gave up her position as head of the coordinating committee in early 1895. She was replaced by Bertha Buch of the Women's Society but it was

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(1852–1921) who took care of the practical arrangements..

Late life

Oxholm fell into financial difficulties after her husband's death in 1914 and declared bankruptcy. She died on 3 September 1935.

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1848 births 1935 deaths 19th-century Danish women People from Poughkeepsie, New York Oxholm family 20th-century Danish women landowners 20th-century Danish landowners {{Denmark-bio-stub