User:Yunqi Zhu/Elise Adelaide Haighton

Prior to the year 1870 when Elise Adelaide Haighton became a known writer – there is not much information that can be located about her life. What is known is that she was born in Amsterdam on May 28, 1841. Her father, Richard Haighton died when Elise was young and her mother, Antoinette Petronella Martha Fikensieper raised her.

Elise worked for a few years as a primary school teacher – and is well-known as a free-thinker and feminist. She was one of the first women in the Netherlands to complete the Second Education Dutch Act.

Elise Haighton

Everard, M. (1992). Haighton, Elise Adelaide; Haighton in the Biographical Portal;

International Information Center for the women’s movement.

Morgenstern. L. (N.D.). Elise A. Haighton; Deutsche Hausfrauen-Zeitung; 13-6-

1897.