Dorothea Christensen

Dorothea von der Lippe Christensen, née Frost (19 December 1847 – 28 February 1908) was a Norwegian domestic science proponent and politician.

[1] As a housewife, Christensen embarked on organizational work to improve the conditions of her group, partially influenced by travels abroad.

[1] Together with Henriette Schønberg Erken, Helgesen and Christensen have been credited with forming the "first wave" of domestic science pioneers in Norway.

In 1897, she proposed that Norwegian housewives organize, in the article "Vi husmødre slutter os sammen" in the magazine Husmoderen.

The article spurred the 1898 foundation of Kristiania Hjemmenes Vel, which grew to a national organization in 1915 (from 1934: the Norwegian Housewives' Association).