Jkvr. Mariane Catherine van Hogendorp (August 8, 1834 – September 17, 1909), a member of the Van Hogendorp family, was a Dutch feminist. She founded the ' (Dutch Women's Union to Increase Moral Consciousness).

Life

Hogendorp was born on 8 August 1834 in

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. She married Aarnout Klerck in 1875 ending with his death in 1876. Hogendorp was the founder of the Nederlandsche Vrouwenbond ter Verhooging van het Zedelijk Bewustzijn (NPV), an influential women's organisation which worked for against

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, which she managed alongside her sister in 1883–1909. She also worked on issues surrounding prostitution with the English feminist

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. Hogendorp was a member of the

Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht The Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Association for Women's Suffrage) was a women's rights organization active in the Netherlands from 1894 to 1919. It was devoted to women's suffrage. It was the main women's suffrage movement in the Netherla ...

from 1894 to 1909, and the representative of the Netherlands in the international women's movement in 1900. She was president of the ''Vrienden der Armen'' Association from 1874 to 1900. She died in

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on September 17, 1909.

References

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