Margaretha Meijboom
✓ Source-basedfallingDutch translator and writer, editor (1856-1927)
Margaretha Anna Sophia Meijboom or Meyboom was a social worker, feminist and translator of Scandinavian literature into Dutch. She introduced many Scandinavian writers to the Netherlands, such as Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Selma Lagerlöf.
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Margaretha Anna Sophia Meijboom or Meyboom was a social worker, feminist and translator of Scandinavian literature into Dutch. She introduced many Scandinavian writers to the Netherlands, such as Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and Selma Lagerlöf. She resisted the idea that a woman's role in society was in the home, and founded several cooperative organisations to further women's economic independence.
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