Background
She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (not the author Maria Hulshoff) and younger sister of the suffragist Jeltje de Bosch Kemper.
She was a member of the Kemper noble family, daughter of Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper and Maria Aletta Hulshoff (not the author Maria Hulshoff) and younger sister of the suffragist Jeltje de Bosch Kemper.
She began to concentrate on the education of young women in 1867, and to further that purpose moved in 1880 from Amsterdam to Amersfoort, where she opened her house as a school to educate all classes of young women for free. A monument in Amersfoort was constructed in 1925 in memory of her social activities.