Mimi Sverdrup Lunden

Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (13 June 1894 – 8 January 1955) was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer andproponent for women's rights

Lunden was born in Sulen, Sogn og Fjordane, a daughter of Lutheran theologianEdvard Sverdrup and Agnes Vollan (1866–1952). She was the sister of oceanographer Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957), United States General Leif Sverdrup (1898-1976) and Einar Sverdrup (1895–1942) CEO ofStore Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani.

In 1918 she married Tallak Lunden (1886–1930), with whom she had two daughters. Her husband was director at Kongsberg Municipal Middle School prior to his death in 1930.

When she was 12 years old, her family moved to Kristiania (now Oslo). She graduated artium in 1912 andbegan studying Philology at the University of Oslo where she graduated in 1918. Lunden worked for a time as a teacher at Kongsberg Municipal Middle School.After her husband's death in 1930, she completed a course of study at the University of Oslo in 1931. She was employed as a lecturer at Vestheim School and later at Hegdehaugen School in Oslo.

While she still had young children and her husband was seriously ill, she was terminated as a "married teacher". This experience reinforced her lifelong commitment in women's rights. In 1936, she joinedthe Norwegian Association for Women's Rights(Norsk Kvinnesaksforening). She served as Vice President while Margarete Bonnevie (1884—1970) served as president.From 1948 she chaired the Norwegian chapter of the Women's International Democratic Federation.

Lunden was also anauthor. In 1922 she was awarded a prize from the Nansen Foundation. She wrote a number of noted books. Additionally she published articles about issues which concerned her: women's rights, international peacekeeping, and educational issues. Her best-known book is De frigjorte hender from 1941. The book is a study of women's important and varied work in the pre-industrial society. The book also noted that in the industrial age, much of this work was taken over byfactories,machines andmen.

• Kvinnen og maskinen. Kvinnearbeidet i støpeskjeen, 1946
• Foreningsarbeide, en håndbok, 1948
• Barnas århundre, 1948
• Den lange arbeidsdagen, 1948