nov 21, 1952 - Henriette Holst Dies

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"In 1949, Roland Holst published her autobiography, The Fire Burned On, and on the occasion of her 80th birthday was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. She had spent her entire life in one of the world's smallest and most densely populated nations, and her life there was reflected in a line of one of her best-known poems: "Holland, you give no space but to the mind." Rich in honors, friends, and years, Henriëtte Roland Holst died in Amsterdam on November 21, 1952. Recent scholarly interest in her life and achievements tends to confirm the evaluation at the time of her death of several leading Dutch newspapers, which described her as the greatest woman produced by the Netherlands in a century." (https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/roland-holst-henriette-1869-1952)