Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. She joined the Norwegian Authors' Union in 1907 and from 1933 through 1935 headed its Literary Council, eventually serving as the union's chairwoman from 1936 until 1940. The family's economic situation meant that Undset had to give up hope of a university education and after a one-year secretarial course she obtained work at the age of 16 as a secretary with an engineering company in Kristiania, a post she was to hold for 10 years. When she was only 11 years old, her father, the Norwegian archaeologist Ingvald Martin Undset (1853–1893), died at the age of 40 after a long illness. She grew up in the Norwegian capital, Oslo (or Kristiania, as it was known until 1925). She and her family moved to Norway when she was two. Undset was the eldest of three daughters. Sigrid Undset was born on in the small town of Kalundborg, Denmark, at the childhood home of her mother, Charlotte Undset (1855–1939, née Anna Maria Charlotte Gyth).
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