Dagmar Hjort

Ane Marie Louise Dagmar Hjort née Harbou (1860–1902) was a Danish schoolteacher, writer and women's rights activist. A member of the Danish Women's Society, she was particularly interested in achieving women's voting rights and became a member of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsudvalg (Suffrage Committee of Danish Women's Associations) when it was established in 1898. She called not only for equality of the sexes in social, economic and political spheres but for women's liberation from family ties to the home. In addition to the articles she contributed to journals and newspapers, she compiled a history of the women's rights movement in North America. Published posthumously as Kvinderetsbevægelsen i Nordamerika, it was widely used in orienting development of the women's movement in Denmark.

Biography Born on 13 January 1860 in Rendsburg, Holstein, which was then in Denmark, Ane Marie Louise Dagmar Harbou was the daughter of Major-General Johannes Wilhelm Anthonius Harbou (1810–1091) and Louise Ulrikke Mariane née Hellesen (1833–1897), a philanthropist. In November 1887, she married the school principal Niels Hjort (1862–1917). The couple had two children, Arne (1888) and Aase (1896). The history was a key reference for orienting further development of the Danish women's movement.