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. She was a co-founder of the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights (; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's rights, women's and girls' rights organization that works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights through political reform, ...

in 1884, and a member its first board. She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.

Personal life

Schjøtt was born in Christiania on 19 February 1944, 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.

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