Mien van Wulfften Palthe

Mien van Wulfften Palthe
Born	Frederika Wilhelmina Broese van Groenou (1875-04-01)1 April 1875 Djokjakarta, Dutch East Indies, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Died	11 November 1960(1960-11-11) (aged 85) The Hague, The Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Other names	Frederika Wilhelmina van Wulfften Palthe-Broese van Groenou, Mien Palthe-Broese, Mien van Wulfften Palthe-Broese van Groenou

Mien van Wulfften Palthe (1 April 1875-11 November 1960) was a Dutch feminist and pacifist. As a member of the Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (Society for Women's Suffrage) and and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she strove to secure enfranchisement for women and worked as an advocate peace.

Early years

Frederika Wilhelmina Broese van Groenou was born on 1 April 1875 in Djokjakarta, Dutch East Indies, part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Jeannetta Emilia (née Wieseman) and Wolter Broese van Groenou. She was the oldest of the seven siblings and her father was serving in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army at the time of her birth. In 1878, he left the military and became director of a sugar company and managed the Tandjong Tirto factory. Mien and her next youngest sister, Miel were sent to live and attend school in The Hague in 1883.

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Bibliography

• de Wilde, Inge (15 November 2016). "Broese van Groenou, Frederika Wilhelmina (1875-1960)" (in Dutch). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2019. Digitaal Vrouwenlexicon van Nederland. {{cite web}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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