Kvindelig Læseforening

Kvindelig Læserforening was founded at the initiative of Sophie Petersen (née Alberti) on 1 October 1872[1] and was inspired by Läsesalong för Damer in Sweden.

In 1910, the Women Readers' Association purchased a lot at the corner of Gammel Mønt and Antonigade.

A four-storey building designed by Ulrik Plesner and Aage Langeland-Mathiesen was completed at the site in 1910.

With 100,000 volumes, its library developed into the largest private collection of fiction in the Nordic countries in the 1930s.

In the late 1940s, the number of members began to decline and the association experienced economic difficulties.