The family was hit by ship losses and surety obligations that depleted its fortune and forced it to sell its summer resort, Solbakken.

She also took an active part in political life, and she played an important role for Adam Egede-Nissen when he took his seat in the Storting in 1900.

As a stay-at-home mother with the children, she was also not spared during the political environment of the time: in Vardø, among other things, she experienced having a window in her home smashed in while her husband was at a victory meeting at the Polar Star (Polarstjernen) lodge after a vote on liquor sales in the city.

When the news of the incident reached the lodge, the meeting participants walked in a united troop home to Goggi.

[6][8] Later, the family settled in Stavanger, where Adam Egede-Nissen became a famous (and infamous) postmaster in 1911 and served as mayor from 1916 to 1919.