She was the second child and first daughter of rector and (future) professor of philology and classical languages Samuel Adrianus Naber (1828–1913) and his wife Anna Elizabeth L’Honoré (1830–1915).

Naber went on to become board member and press officer of the Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht (the Dutch Organisation for Women's Suffrage).

She briefly serves as the IWSA's Second Assistant Secretary, but was forced to resign due to her commitments as historian and author.

[2] She was involved in the organisation of a second exhibition on women's contributions to society in 1913 and consequently met several times with Dutch queen Wilhelmina who eventually knighted her in the Order of Oranje-Nassau.

This text later functioned as an important reference work for fellow IAV-founder Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot's seminal overview of the Dutch women's movement since the 19th century Van Moeder op Dochter (‘Mother to Daughter’).

Unlike many of her contemporaries in the women's movement, Naber was a staunch opposer of pacifism and was involved in several organisations that plead for a strong army in the early 1920s.