This is not a traditional poetry album with verses, but used by Ms. Korting to let her students write something in it, in 1939. She writes in the front: “… and not a verse, but a few rules … about yourself, your class, some nice memory of an experience during your time with me at […]

This Souvenirs du pensionnat is a poetry album of sorts. It features texts written by Lucy Timmermans’ fellow students.

The game of field hockey made its introduction in the Netherlands in Haarlem. Pim Mulier (1865-1954) introduced hockey there, after he learned the rules of the game at boarding school in England.

Aletta Jacobs (1854-1929) went traveling through many countries in the years 1911 and 1912. She made this journey in order to stay informed about the position of women and to promote women’s suffrage. Throughout the duration of this trip she was accompanied by Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Jacobs’ travel letters were originally intended as […]

‘Door duisternis tot licht’ (Through darkness to the light) is the story of Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904).

The Dutch Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women’s Suffrage) was founded in 1894 by Wilhelmina Drucker (1847-1925) with the goal of securing women’s suffrage.

This pamphlet from the Dutch Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women’s Suffrage) dating from 1918 sent their best wishes to the National Women’s Suffrage Associations in the United States and in Great Britain regarding their struggle for securing women’s suffrage.

Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) was the first female professor in the Netherlands.