Mimi Sverdrup Lunden

Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (13 June 1894 – 8 January 1955) was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer and proponent for women's rights

Personal life Lunden was born in Sulen Municipality in Nordre Bergenhus, a daughter of Lutheran theologian Edvard Sverdrup and Agnes Vollan (1866–1952). She was the sister of oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957), United States General Leif Sverdrup (1898-1976) and Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942) CEO of Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani.

In 1918 she married Tallak Lunden (1886–1930),

Lunden was also an author. In 1922 she was awarded a prize from the Nansen Foundation. She wrote a number of noted books. Additionally she published articles about issues which concerned her: women's rights, international peacekeeping, and educational issues. Her best-known book is De frigjorte hender from 1941. The book is a study of women's important and varied work in the pre-industrial society. The book also noted that in the industrial age, much of this work was taken over by factories, machines and men.

Selected works Kvinnen og maskinen. Kvinnearbeidet i støpeskjeen, 1946 Foreningsarbeide, en håndbok, 1948 Barnas århundre, 1948 Den lange arbeidsdagen, 1948