Background
She was born in Molde, as the daughter of stipendiary magistrate and later member of parliament and minister Ferdinand Nicolai Roll.
She was born in Molde, as the daughter of stipendiary magistrate and later member of parliament and minister Ferdinand Nicolai Roll.
She made her literary debut with the novel I blinde in 1898, using the pseudonym Jo Nein. Among her later novels are Det svake kjøn (1915) and Kvinnen og den svarte fuglen (posthumously, 1945).