Dagmar Hjort

Ane Marie Louise Dagmar Hjort née Harbou (1860–1902) was a Danish schoolteacher, writer and women's rights activist.

In addition to the articles she contributed to journals and newspapers, she compiled a history of the women's rights movement in North America.

[3] In the late 1870s, she worked for a short period as a private tutor for the mayor of Korsør but then attend N. Zahle's School in Copenhagen together with her younger sisters Alvida and Inger.

[2] Together with Charlotte and Alvilda, she was present when the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsudvalg (Suffrage Committee of Danish Women's Associations) was established in 1898.

Published in the journal Tilskueren, it led to a controversy with the Social Democrat Education Minister Nina Bang who criticized it as a bourgeois view which did not take account of the needs of working women.

Dagmar Hjort as depicted in Program of 1899 International Congress of Women at which she was a representative [ 1 ]