Cissy van Marxveldt

Sietske de Haan (24 November 1889 – 31 October 1948), better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of children's books. She is best known for her series of Joop ter Heul novels.

Biography Sietske de Haan was born on 24 November 1889 in Oranjewoud, a village in the northern province of Friesland in the Netherlands. She was the daughter of IJnze de Haan, a headmaster and history teacher, and Froukje de Groot.

In 1914, she met Leon Beek, a Jewish reserve infantry officer who became a department store manager. De Haan and Beek married on 2 February 1916 and had two sons, Ynze and Leo. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Beek was a member of the Dutch resistance. After a failed attempt to escape from the Westerbork transit camp he was executed in 1944 in Overveen. It was 1946 before De Haan learned of his fate. She died in Bussum on 31 October 1948. Game – and set! (1917) Het hoogfatsoen van Herr Feuer: herinneringen aan mijn Duitschen kantoortijd (1918) De H.B.S. tijd van Joop ter Heul (1919) Caprices (1922) De Kingfordschool (1922) Joop ter Heul's problemen (1923) Joop van Dil-ter Heul (1923) Het nieuwe begin (1924) Rekel (1924) Burgemeester's tweeling (1925) De Stormers (1925) Joop en haar jongen (1925) Kwikzilver (1926) Een zomerzotheid (1927) De Arcadia: een genoeglijke reis naar Spitsbergen (1928) De louteringkuur (1928) Herinneringen: verzamelde schetsen (1928) Marijke (1929) Confetti (1930) Puck van Holten (1931) De toekomst van Marijke (1932) Marijke's bestemming (1934) De enige weg (1935) Hazehart (1937) Pim 'de stoetel' (1937) De dochter van Joop ter Heul (1946) Ook zij maakte het mee (1946) De blokkendoos (1950) Mensen uit een klein dorp (1950)