Jonkvrouw/Freule Christine de Bosch Kemper (16 August 1840,

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) was a Dutch writer. She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (not the author Maria Hulshoff) and younger sister of the suffragist

Jeltje de Bosch Kemper Jkvr. Jeltje de Bosch Kemper (1836 – 1916) was a Dutch feminist. Life Bosch Kemper was born in Amsterdam on 28 April 1836. She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of (1808-1876) and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (1810-1844) and ...

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pastor at Amsterdam, baptised her in 1861. She began to concentrate on the education of young women in 1867, and to further that purpose moved in 1880 from Amsterdam to Amersfoort, where she opened her house as a school to educate all classes of young women for free. She and her sister Jeltje both championed women's rights, though Freule kept these ideas within her own circle. She bequeathed her stately home to become an old people's home and her other property to be administered by Mennonite directors for the improvement of women's material condition, as the "Christine-Stichting Foundation". A monument in Amersfoort was constructed in 1925 in memory of her social activities.

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Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) entry
1840 births 1924 deaths Dutch feminists Dutch women writers Writers from Amsterdam Jonkvrouws of the Netherlands {{Netherlands-writer-stub