Ursula Dahlerup

From an early age, she wanted to pursue a career in music or art, but her father, who was very traditional, insisted that she become a wife and mother.

In 1869, she married Baron Hans Joost Vilhelm Dahlerup (1830-1876), a lawyer at the Ministry of Finance.

Their first-born son, Hans, an aspiring sculptor, committed suicide in Paris at the age of twenty.

By 1893, she was participating in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where she recreated an old Danish farmhouse and won several awards.

[1] Of more importance, ultimately, was her observation that immigrants who used down mattresses often became ill; apparently from the cotton padding.