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The book is the result of a research project called the Digital Women's lexicon of the Netherlands (Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland) led by Els Kloek. [2] The biographies are presented in alphabetical order, and can also be viewed online. [3] The breakdown of biographies per period according to the website (which is still growing) is as ...
In 1841, Anna Barbara van Meerten-Schilperoort founded Hulpbetoon aan Eerlijke en Vlijtige Armoede, the first women's organization in the Netherlands. Middle-class women began to find paid employment, first in nursing. The first department store in the Netherlands opened in 1860, and women began finding jobs as retail clerks.
Maria Adeline Alice Schweistal or Fanny Psicha (1864–1950), Belgium-born Dutch painter; Suze Slager-Velsen (1883–1964), painter; Carolein Smit (born 1960), ceramic art sculptor; Maria Geertruida Snabilie (1776–1838), painter; Ellen Spijkstra (born 1957), ceramic artist; Adriana Spilberg (1652–1700), Dutch Golden Age painter
It was the Dutch novelist Theun de Vries who added Hannie Schaft's last words as a poetic license in his book The Girl With the Red Hair (Het meisje met het rode haar, 1956). On 27 November 1945, Schaft was reburied in a state funeral at the Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal .
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
Veronique Renard (born 1965), trans woman memoirist and non-fiction writer in English; Henriette Roland Holst (1869–1952), poet, playwright and biographer; Astrid Roemer (born 1947), Suriname novelist and poet living in the Netherlands; Hannie Rouweler (born 1951), Dutch poet; Heleen van Royen (born 1965), novelist and columnist
First woman to earn a Philosophy doctorate degree. [42] [43] 1732 Laura Bassi: First woman to officially teach at a European university. [44] [45] [46] 1874 Grace Annie Lockhart: First woman in the British Empire to receive a Bachelor's degree: 1875 Stefania Wolicka-Arnd: First woman to receive a PhD in the modern era. [47] [48] 1891 Juana Miranda
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Dutch This category exists only as a container for other categories of Dutch women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.