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Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish-language poet and writer.

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Ruth Berlau was a Danish actress, director, photographer and writer, known for her collaboration with Bertolt Brecht and for founding the Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv in Berlin.

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Charlotta Dorothea Biehl was a Danish author, playwright and translator.

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Ilia Fibiger was a Danish writer and playwright as well as Denmark's first professional nurse. She was the elder sister of writer and feminist Mathilde Fibiger.

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Juliane Marie Jessen was an early Danish female author and translator who made a name for herself in 1819 by winning first prize for the words she wrote for a national anthem for Denmark with her Dannemark! Dannemark! – hellige Lyd!, although it was never officially adopted. She also published other works including poetry and, in 1815, the play Ei blot til Lyst.

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Anna Catharina Materna (1731–1757) was a Danish actor and playwright. She belonged to the first pioneer-troupe of actors at the Royal Danish Theatre, and later became one of the first female playwrights to have her plays performed there.

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Birgitte Dorothea Henriette Nielsen, pen name Theodora, was a Danish author and playwright born in Strandgården, Vester Thorup, in the north of Jutland. Her Slægtningene (1849), presented in Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre, was particularly successful with its pre-vaudeville atmosphere, local costumes from Fanø and songs she had composed herself. It ran to 78 performances.

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Athalia Theophilia Schwartz, pen name Hieronymus, was a Danish writer, journalist and educator. She was an important female contributor to 19th-century Danish literature, publishing schoolbooks, poetry, drama and short stories. She was employed by Berlingske Tidende as a theatre critic. She also wrote about the conditions and lives of prostitutes in England, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Catharine Stolberg (1751–1832), was a Danish-German countess and writer. She published novels and plays, and was also known for her biography and her preserved correspondence.

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Pia Tafdrup is a Danish writer; primarily a poet, she has also written a novel and two plays, as well as works for radio.

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Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh was a Danish-born Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said to have inspired a number of other writers to model characters after her. Her stepdaughter, Suzannah Ibsen, was married to Henrik Ibsen.