Mathilde Schjøtt

{{Short description|Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist}}

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| name = Mathilde Schjøtt

| image = Portrett av Mathilde Dunker, gift Schjøtt OB.00069.jpg

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| caption = Mathilde Schjøtt

| birth_name = Mathilde Dunker

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1844|2|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Christiania, Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1926|1|13|1844|2|19|df=y}}

| death_place = Oslo

| nationality = Norwegian

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| spouse = Peter Olrog Schjøtt

| children = Sofie Schjøtt

| parents = Bernhard Dunker
Edle Jasine Theodore Grundt

| relatives = Conradine Birgitte Dunker (grandmother)
Vilhelmine Ullmann (aunt)

| occupation = Writer
Playwright
Literary critic

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Mathilde Schjøtt (née Dunker) (19 February 1844 – 13 January 1926) was a Norwegian writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist. She made her literary debut with the anonymous Venindernes samtale om Kvindens Underkuelse in 1871. She was a literary critic for the magazine Nyt Tidsskrift, and her play Rosen was published anonymously in this periodical in 1882.{{cite encyclopedia |year=2007|title=Mathilde Schjøtt |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon|editor=Henriksen, Petter |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/Mathilde_Schj%C3%B8tt |language=Norwegian|access-date=30 September 2009}}{{cite journal |title=Rosen | year=1882 |pages=113–139 |journal=Nyt Tidsskrift |editor=Sars, J. E. |editor2=Skavlan, Olaf |location=Kristiania }} She was a co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights in 1884, and a member its first board. She wrote a biography on Alexander L. Kielland in 1904.