biography
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Wolff, Betje
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popular name of Elizabeth Wolff-Bekker
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pronunciation:
[wolf]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1738–1804)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Vlissingen, SW Netherlands. She married Adriaan Wolff, more than 30 years her senior, in 1759. She produced her first poetry in 1763 and contributed to a spectatorial magazine. Shortly after the death of her husband in 1777, her lady friend Aagje Deken moved in with her, and together they published several novels and articles, of which the epistolary novel Sara Burgerhart is the best-known. After a terminal illness, Wolff died in 1804, and her friend Deken died less than 10 days later. |
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