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Camilla Collett

Died in 1895

Camilla Collett was born in Kristiansand on 23 January 1813, the daughter of the pastor Nicolai Wergeland and the sister of the poet Henrik Wergeland. Raised at the Eidsvoll parsonage, she kept a diary from an early age. She loved the poet Welhaven, her brother's adversary, and then married Peter Jonas Collett in 1841. Widowed in 1851, with four sons, she went on to write essays and polemics, which make her the first feminist critic of her country, and she died in Kristiania on 6 March 1895.

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