biography
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Zuylen, Belle van
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also known as Madame de Charrière, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyl van Serooskerken
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pronunciation:
[van zoelen]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
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| biography:
| French-Swiss writer of Dutch descent, known in French literature as Madame de Charrière, born in Zuilen, near Utrecht, W Netherlands. She married the Swiss Charles-Emmanuel de Charrière in 1771. Critical of the ideas of the Enlightenment, she was a well educated, independently thinking woman. In her work she wrote about women, their feelings, and their position in society, and influenced the work of Benjamin Constant and Madame de Staël. Her oeuvre consists of novels, epistolary novels, plays, and letters. |
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