Else Moltke

A keen contributor to newspapers and magazines from the early 1930s, she wrote mainly about historical figures, a topic which was behind Fra Bondehus til Herregaard (From Farmhouse to Manor, 1941).

In 1941 she founded and ran a women's discussion club (Kvindelige Diskussionsklub) in Copenhagen which over the years achieved a membership of some 800.

[4] In March 1910, she married her distant cousin, the painter Harald Viggo Moltke (1871–1960), with whom she had two daughters: Rose (1913) and Alette (1926).

Two years later aged 17, while attending Johan Borups Højskole in Copenhagen, she met and fell in love with a distant relative, the painter and explorer Harald Moltke.

In 1941 she founded and chaired a popular women's discussion club (Kvindelige Diskussionsklub) in Copenhagen which over the years achieved a membership of some 800.