Erna Juel-Hansen

This caused Juel-Hansen considerable sorrow as she had always hoped for a happy, modern marriage in which both parents could share the task of raising their four children.

[1] After the kindergarten closed, she decided to concentrate on a new project, this time founding a gymnastics college in 1884, taking full account of Pehr Henrik Ling's pioneering work in Sweden on teaching physical education.

She also began writing, covering the difficulties experienced by young people as a result of their upbringing as well as the struggles faced by women in married life, based on her own experiences of defeat.

[1] While her first novel Mellem 12 og 17 (Between 12 and 17), published in 1881 under the pen-name Arne Wendt, covers the teenage fantasies of young women in a rather rudimentary way,[according to whom?]

The problems faced by adult women as they grow older are behind her later novels, Terese Kærulf (1894) and Helsen & Co. (1900), both partly biographical.