Ella Anker

Eli Birgit "Ella" Anker (2 June 1870 – 20 April 1958) was a Norwegian magazine journalist, newspaper correspondent, playwright and pamphleteer.

She was born at Sagatun Folk High School in Vang, Hedmark to Herman Anker (1839–1896) and Danish citizen Marie Elisabeth "Mix" Bojsen (1843–1892). She was a sister of Katti Anker Møller and sister-in-law of Kai Møller, granddaughter of Peter Martin Anker, niece of Nils Anker, Christian August Anker and Dikka Møller, first cousin of Johan Anker and aunt of Tove Mohr, Øyvind Anker, Synnøve Anker Aurdal and Peter Martin Anker.

From December 1892 to 1906 she was married to Vilhelm Dunker Dons (1868–1908), a grandson of Vilhelmine Ullmann. Through her husband's sisters she was a sister-in-law of Nils Kjær and Jens Thiis. She died in April 1958 in Oslo.

She finished her secondary education at Ragna Nielsen's school in Kristiania in 1887 and took the examen philosophicum in 1888. In 1892 she was the first female board member of the Norwegian Students' Society, but the whole board was excluded for agitating against the Norwegian flag with union badge. From 1902 to 1904 she worked as a private secretary for Liberal Party politician Wollert Konow (H), who was also married to a maternal aunt of hers She was active in political parties, but from the Liberal Party she joined the Labour Democrats in 1890, then the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1926 and the Labour Party in 1927. She stood for parliamentary election; as third ballot candidate for the Radical People's Party (Labour Democrats) in Akershus in 1921.

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