LC control no. | n 85061056 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Gad, Emma, 1852-1921 |
Birth date | 1852 |
Death date | 1921 |
Place of birth | Copenhagen (Denmark) |
Profession or occupation | Dramatists Authors |
Found in | Kildegaard, B. Fru Emma Gad, c1984: p. 21 (b. 1852) p. 213 (d. 1921) Laughter and civility, ©2020: ECIP t.p. (Emma Gad) galley (born 1852 in Copenhagen; author of twenty-five plays, as well as several adaptations and translations; also the author of many articles in newspapers and magazines, the editor from 1915 to her death in 1921 of the women's pages in the progressive Copenhagen daily, Politiken, the principal organizer of the Women's Exhibition in Copenhagen in 1895, a member or chair of many women's committees and professional organizations, the gracious and open-minded hostess of a salon that gathered together many of Copenhagen's notables, the mother of the pioneering filmmaker, Urban Gad, with whom she occasionally collaborated, and, most notoriously, the author of the classic Danish etiquette book, Takt og Tone (Tact and good manners), first published in 1918) |
Associated language | dan |