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Palm, Etta (Lubina Johanna)
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née Aelders
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[pahlm]
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| An early Dutch feminist and political double agent, with a reputation for licentious living, born in Groningen, The Netherlands. In 1762 she married C F L Palm but was divorced soon after. In 1773–92 she lived in Paris under the name of Baronne d'Aelders, where she knew many men in political and diplomatic circles and passed information to France, Prussia, and the Dutch Republic. In the French Revolution she was active for women's rights. She was arrested for spying in 1791, but soon released. In 1792 she moved to The Hague, but after the Batavian Revolution was arrested and imprisoned from 1795 to 1798, when she was released under the general amnesty. |
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