232:. She put together the first curriculum and was a member of the school board for many years. Muller-Lulofs wanted to turn it into a boarding school, to remove the girls from the comfort of their family surroundings, but that proposal was not adopted by the other founders. In addition, she wanted to provide scholarships for poorer students, but the other founders disagreed, which meant that the training was only accessible to people who could afford it. She also lost the argument when proposing that the students should make visits to the houses of the poor to see the conditions that they lived in.
169:, a public park. After her third child was born, she was able to leave her own children in the care of servants and focus on volunteering to help the poor. At the time, women with husbands were not expected to work unless out of necessity and women who could afford maids had little to do. If upper-middle-class women wanted to develop personally, volunteering was one of the only ways and this normally involved becoming involved with charitable work. Initially, Lulofs joined the
152:. Back in Amsterdam, she wanted to go to the girls' high school, but her father died in 1870 and she had to help her mother with the house. Nevertheless, she often took the opportunity to attend lectures on various subjects at literary and cultural societies. She married Samuel Muller, an archivist and historian, in 1877 in Amsterdam. He was the best friend of one of her brothers. The couple moved to
252:, which was later converted into a Savings and Loan Fund. In the same year, she was also involved in the redrafting of the Dutch Poor Law. In 1921 she established a Commission for Assistance in Difficult Circumstances, which aimed to alleviate the distress among the so-called 'quiet poor' in the bourgeois class. It was only in 1940, at the age of 84, that she resigned from all of her activities.
173:, but she did not feel at home there and came to abhor Christian charities, which she saw as only wanting to win souls. She also did not agree with the views of the Social Democrats as she felt they placed too much emphasis on class struggle, although she did support strikes by railway workers in 1903. She eventually joined a circle of social-liberals associated with the
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When her eldest son had finished primary school in 1889, Muller-Lulofs began to act more publicly. She researched poor relief in several countries and adopted good examples from abroad in the work of the associations she would form. She wrote articles for the
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Utrecht, at the age of 99. In 2013, the Muller-Lulofshuis (Muller-Lulofs House) was opened at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
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