She studied art in Norway with Knud Bergslien, and in Berlin with Karl Gussow.
Her cartoons were detailed realistic engraved drawings of women and children, often addressing such issues as child labor, prohibition, and suffrage.
[5][6][7][8] In 1884, Fredrikke Schjödt married Arthur Hubbell Palmer (1859–1918),[9] an American professor, in Oslo, and moved with him to Cleveland, Ohio.
They had two sons, Harold (1890–1959),[10] a geologist at the University of Hawaii,[11][12] and Erik (1885-1957), a mathematics professor.
[13] In widowhood she moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where she died in 1947, aged 86 years.