Career
Together with e.g. Moltke Moe, Erik Werenskiold, Gina Krog, Axel Johannessen, Erika Nissen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, she was among the co-authors of the book Forældre og Børn, edited by Aksel Arstal (1902). She was the youngest daughter of the industrialist and estate owner Benjamin Wegner and Henriette Seyler, and was a granddaughter of the Hamburg banker L.E. Seyler. Her mother"s family owned Berenberg Bank.
Her great-grandfather was the famous Swiss theatre director Abel Seyler.
In her youth, she was among the key participants in Hans Faye"s 1859 masquerade ball with Louis XIV and Louis XV era costumes in Gamle Logen, one of the highlights of Christiania high society in the 19th century. She had five children, among them the surgeon Nikolai Nissen Paus, the lawyer George Wegner Paus and the hydropower executive Augustin Paus.
She is interred at Vår Frelsers gravlund.