Anna van Gogh-Kaulbach

Anna Maria van Gogh-Kaulbach (31 December 1869 – 28 January 1960) was a Dutch writer and translator. She published a number of works under the pen names Wilhelmina Reynbach, Erna, Mac Peter and Wata.

Biography The daughter of Frans Ludwig Eduard Kaulbach, a physician, and Helena Maria Cornelia van Reijn, she was born Anna Maria Kaulbachin Velsen. Her parents had six other children who all died shortly after birth. When she was two, her mother became blind. She attended a primary girls' school in Beverwijk and a girls' Hogere Burgerschool in Haarlem. In 1892, she published her first story in Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift. In the same year, she met her future husband Willem Jacob van Gogh, a bulb grower who was a cousin of Vincent van Gogh. In 1894, the couple joined the Social Democratic Workers' Party. In the same year, she published her first novel Albert Overberg under the pseudonym Wilhelmina Reynbach'; she published a second novel Otto van Lansveldt under the same name in the following year. Besides novels and stories, she also published plays, children's stories and travelogues.

Van Gogh-Kaulbach translated works by a number of authors, including Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Neel Doff. She also wrote and translated radio plays.

She was honorary president of the Dutch women's organization . A pacifist, she was a member of the Nederlandse Vredesraad.

She died in Haarlem at the age of 90.

Selected works Rika, novel (1905) Eigen haard, play (1910) De sterkste, novel (1913) Opgang. De roman van een vrouwenleven, novel (1914) Binnen de muren, two volumes (1915) Jet-Lie, novel (1917) Lenie ter Heuvel, youth literature, 3 volumes (1920-1922) Het brandende hart, novel (1928) Zomerland, novel (1953)