may 1, 1896 - Poetry and Political Activism

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"Roland Holst soon came to develop a talent as a poet. She married the artist Richard Roland Holst in 1896 and befriended the poet Herman Gorter, who prompted her to read Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Around this time she became politically active and began her career as a writer on political, historical and philosophical fields." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Roland_Holst)