Marta Steinsvik

She was influenced by the thinking of both English Theosophist, Annie Besant and Austrian philosopher, Rudolf Steiner.

[4] She was multilingual and translated several books into Nynorsk, including Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte written by Mark Twain and Quo vadis?

The book includes examples of Norwegian resistance movement torturing suspected Nazi sympathizers in the summer of 1945.

It also discussed the legality of withdrawing a group's human rights, (those who were members of Nasjonal Samling, the Norwegian National Socialist party, after 9 April 1940), by an ex post facto law that set aside the Hague Convention which Norway had ratified.

The papers left behind on her death are currently being organised at the Norwegian cultural institution, The Blue Colour Works.

She was born Marta Tonstad on the farm Skjeggestad in Bakke ( now part of Flekkefjord) in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway.

Her father worked as a teacher in Flekkefjord and owned the farm Skjeggestad, where Marta lived until she was three years old.