Carry van Bruggen

Carry van Bruggen (1 January 1881 – 16 November 1932) was a Dutch writer. She also wrote under the name Justine Abbing. This was a happier marriage but, after 1928, she frequently had depression and spent time in psychiatric hospitals.

Van Bruggen died in Laren at the age of 51 from an overdose of sleeping pills.

Selected works De verlatene (The abandoned), novel (1910) Heleen, novel (1913) Een coquette vrouw (A coquette), novel (1915) Prometheus, philosophic essay (1919) Uit het leven van een denkende vrouw (From the life of a thinking woman), novel (1920) Het huisje aan de sloot (The small house by the ditch), collection of short stories (1921) Avontuurtjes (Adventures), novel (1922) Vier jaargetijden (Four seasons), novel (1924) Hedendaags fetischisme (Contemporary fetishism), commentary (1925) Eva, novel (1927)