Sophie Alberti

Mathilde Elise Sophie Alberti (19 September 1846 – 17 June 1947) was a pioneering Danish women's rights activist and a leading member of Kvindelig Læseforening (Women Readers' Association), increasing membership to some 4,600 by 1919.

[1][2] Alberti was born on 19 September 1846 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of the high court procurator and Venstre politician, Carl Christian Alberti (1814–90), and Albertine Sophie Frederikke Westergaard (1814–1901).

[1] Attached to her parents, she remained in the family home until they died.

When she was only 16, they allowed her to go to Paris, France, on a study trip with her friend Tagea Rovsing.

[2] After the Women Readers' Association had been established by Rovsing and Sophie Petersen in 1872, Alberti became an active member two years later.