Career
She was Associate Professor of children"s literature at Statens bibliotekhøgskole (now Oslo and Akershus University College) 1968-1994, President of the Norwegian Association for Women"s Rights 1972-1978, and wrote several books on children"s literature. In the 1940s, she worked for the Norsk Rikskringkasting"s Lørdagsbarnetimen and in the 1950s as a literarary critic for Arbeiderbladet and Verdens Gang.