Mariane van Hogendorp
Jkvr.Mariane Catherine van Hogendorp (Aug. 8, 1834, Den Haag – September 17, 1909, Lausanne), a member of the Van Hogendorp family, was a Dutch feminist.
She was the founder of the NPV, an influential women's organisation which worked against prostitution, which she managed alongside her sister Anna van Hogendorp in 1883-1909. She also worked on issues surrounding prostitution with the English feminist Josephine Butler.
Van Hogendorp was a member of the Dutch Association of Women Suffrage in 1894-1909, and the representative of the Netherlands in the international women's movement in 1900.
She died in Lausanne in 1909.[1]
References
- ↑ Hogendorp, Mariane Catherine van (1834-1909), Huygens ING
- Petra de Vries, 'Hogendorp, jkvr. Mariane Catherine van (1834-1909)' in: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 5 (2002).
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