About Betje Wolff
Lived 1738 – 1804 (aged 66). Betje Wolff was a Dutch writer and novelist.
Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker (24 July 17385 November 1804) was a Dutch novelist who, with Agatha "Aagje" Deken, wrote several popular epistolary novels such as Sara Burgerhart and Willem Levend (1784).
Biography Bekker was born into a wealthy Calvinist family at Vlissingen. On 18 November 1759, at the age of 21, she married the 52-year-old clergyman Adriaan Wolff. In 1763, she published her first collection Bespiegelingen over het genoegen ('Reflections on Pleasure'). After her husband's death in 1777, she lived for a time with Aagje Deken in France.
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Who was Betje Wolff?
Dutch writer
When was Betje Wolff born?
Betje Wolff was born on 24 July 1738 in Vlissingen.
When did Betje Wolff die?
Betje Wolff died on 5 November 1804 in The Hague.
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Betje Wolff was a writer and novelist.
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Betje Wolff was Dutch.
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