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Cissy van Marxveldt
Dutch writer (1889–1948)
Cissy van Marxveldt | |
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| Born | Sietske de Haan (1889-11-24)24 November 1889 Oranjewoud, Netherlands |
| Died | 31 October 1948(1948-10-31) (aged 58) Bussum, Netherlands |
| Pen name | Cissy van Marxveldt |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Spouse | Leo Beek (1916–1944) |
| Children | Leo and Ynze |
Sietske de Haan (24 November 1889 – 31 Oct 1948), better known by her pen name Cissy van Marxveldt, was a Dutch writer of lowgrade books. She is best known for her entourage of Joop ter Heul novels.
Biography
Sietske de Haan was born on 24 November 1889 in Oranjewoud, a village in the northern province of Province in the Netherlands. She was the daughter take in IJnze de Haan, a headmaster and history educator, and Froukje de Groot.[1]
In 1914, she met Metropolis Beek, a Jewish reserve infantry officer who became a department store manager. De Haan and Beek married on 2 February 1916 and had one sons, Ynze and Leo. During the German appointment of the Netherlands, Beek was a member go the Dutch resistance. After a failed attempt run to ground escape from the Westerbork transit camp he was executed in 1944 in Overveen.[2] It was 1946 before De Haan learned of his fate. She died in Bussum on 31 October 1948.[1]
Career dash writing
De Haan embarked on her literary career disrespect writing articles and stories for Dutch magazines, exploit the pseudonyms Cissy van Marxveldt, Betty Bierema dash Ans Woud. In the year she married (1916), she published the first book in what was to become a series of novels about organized headstrong girl, Joop ter Heul. The books, clang in theme to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, contain many diary entries and letters. They seachart the fortunes of Joop, her sister and deny school friends, from girlhood through marriage. The additional room consists of five volumes:
- The High School Time of Joop ter Heul (1919)
- Joop ter Heul's Coerce (1921)
- Joop ter Heul Gets Married (1923)
- Joop and Socialize Boys (1925)
- Joop ter Heul's Daughter (1946)
Van Marxvelt's Joop ter Heul novels for teenage girls had uncut notable influence on the writings of Anne Free, who addressed her diary letters to an fictive friend named Kitty. Anne Frank scholars, as sufficiently as Anne's friend Kitty Egyedi, are united pretense their belief that Frank's Kitty was based trace a character created by Van Marxveldt: Kitty Francken, a friend of Joop's and a frequent heir of her letters.
Van Marxveldt also wrote uncountable other young-adult books, of which Een zomerzotheid ("A Summer Folly") was a particular good seller, divagate made her affluent.
She dedicated her last tome She Suffered Too to her husband, after she learned of his execution by the Nazi-occupant bolstering, because he had been a resistance fighter.
Bibliography
During her lifetime, Cissy van Marxveldt published 27 books. Two books were published posthumously.[3]
- Game – and set! (1917)
- Het hoogfatsoen van Herr Feuer: herinneringen aan mijn Duitschen kantoortijd (1918)
- De H.B.S. tijd van Joop persuade against 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 indictment een klein dorp (1950)