Mathilde Elise Sophie Alberti (19 September 1846 – 17 June 1947) was a pioneering Danish

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

activist and a leading member of

Kvindelig Læseforening Kvindelig Læserforening ( English: Women Readers' Association) was a membership-based, private library for women which existed from 1872 until 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its former building on Gammel Mønt (No. 1) is designed by Ulrik Plesner ...

(Women Readers' Association), increasing membership to some 4,600 by 1919.

Biography

Alberti was born on 19 September 1846 in

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, Denmark, the daughter of the high court procurator and Venstre politician, Carl Christian Alberti (1814–90), and Albertine Sophie Frederikke Westergaard (1814–1901). She was the eldest of four children, her brother

Peter Adler Alberti Peter Adler Alberti (10 June 1851 – 14 June 1932) was a Danish politician and swindler, known for the Alberti scandal of 1908. Career Alberti was a solicitor, the son of a liberal politician who had been a pioneer of the Danish savings bank ...

gaining prominence as the instigator of the 1908 Alberti scandal. Attached to her parents, she remained in the family home until they died. When she was only 16, they allowed her to go to

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, France, on a study trip with her friend Tagea Rovsing. The two were active in promoting a woman's right to study and followed the parliamentary debates on housewives' rights to an income. After the Women Readers' Association had been established by Rovsing and Sophie Petersen in 1872, Alberti became an active member two years later.

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