dec 24, 1869 - Henriette Roland Holst born

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"Henriette Roland Holst-van der Schalk (1869-1952), poetess, writer and socialist, is one of the most revered women in the history of the Netherlands. Her contemporaries hailed her as ‘our greatest poet’ and saw her as a prophetess; the proclaimer of a beautiful, pure and righteous future." (https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200101_01/_low001200101_01_0016.php)

"Roland Holst was brought up in the affluent, liberal Christian family of the notary Theodore Willem van der Schalk and Anna Ida van der Schalk-van der Hoeven. Roland Holst attended four years of boarding school in Velp and studied French in Liege." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Roland_Holst)