 She graduated from Olaf Bergs lærerinneskole in Christiania in 1896 and worked as teacher until 1902 when she married the Danish historian Johannes Peder Lindbæk (1872-1919) and moved to Denmark.After the death of her husband, she moved with her children back to Norway.She was a teacher at Nissen Girls' School in Oslo from 1920 to 1936, before becoming a film critic from 1935 to 1940.