![]() De historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) to Samuel Richardsons. Other popular books by Betje Wolff and Aagje Deken were Abraham Blankaart (1787) and Cornelie Wildschut (1793-1796). Boheemen-Saafs comparison of Dutch novels such as Betje Wolff and Aagje Dekers. In 1795 she returned to Holland, and resided at the Hague till her death. She was exposed to some of the dangers of the French Revolution, and, it is said, escaped the guillotine only by her great presence of mind. ![]() In 1789 they published Wandelingen door Bourgogne. Among their greatest successes were the epistolary novels Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart ( 1782) and Historie van den heer Willem Leevend ( 1784- 1785).īecause of their patriotic sympathies they moved to Trévoux in Burgundy in 1788. In 1777, after her husband's death, she lived together with Aagje Deken and from then on they published their work together. In 1763 she published her first collection Bespiegelingen over het genoegen ('Reflections on Pleasure'). political throughout the, volume not only would have allowed the inclusion of women other than the well-known authors Betje Wolff and Aagje Deker or the. On 18 November 1759 she married the 52-year-old clergyman Adriaan Wolff. Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker ( Flushing, 24 July 1738 - The Hague, 5 November 1804) was a Dutch writer. ![]()
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