Career
She co-founded the first Woman Suffrage association in the Netherlands, FRP, in 1894 and served as its chairperson in 1894-1895 and 1895-1903. Anette Poelman was the daughter of the radical preacher and parliamentarian Adrian Louis Poelman and Catherine Reijnder and, form 1876, married to the publisher William Versluys (1851-1937), whose company was known for its publication of radical writers. In 1893, the women"s rights association of Wilhelmina Drucker called for the foundation of a woman suffrage association, and the following year, Poelman was one of four co-founders of the FRP and became its chairperson.
In 1905-1914, she managed a home for unmarried mothers.
