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Tine van Berken

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Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout (1870 – 1899) was a Dutch children's writer, best known under her pseudonym Tine van Berken. She also wrote adult books under the name Anna Koubert.

Life

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Tine van Berken was born on September 29, 1870, in Amsterdam. Between 1894 and 1899, she wrote a large number of books for girls.

In 1899, she founded the journal Lente: Weekblad voor jonge dames [Spring: Young Ladies' Weekly Magazine]. She corresponded with Top Naeff about placing an article in Spring, and read Naeff's novel Schoolidyllen [School Idylls].[1] However, she died from tuberculosis on December 7, 1899.[2]

The Flemish magic realist writer Johan Daisne wrote a biography of her, Tine van Berken of de intelligentie der ziel [Tine van Berken, or the intelligence of the soul] (1962).

Works

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As Tine van Berken
  • Een klaverblad van vier [A four-leaf clover], 1894
  • De familie Berewoud [The Berewoud family], 1895
  • Hans en Hanna [Hans and Hanna], 1896
  • Meidorens: drie verhalen, 1896
  • Mijn zusters en ik [My sisters and I], 1896
  • (tr.) Mooie Bruno, 1896. Translated from the English Beautiful Joe by Margaret Marshall Saunders.
  • Wilde wingerd: drie verhalen [Virginia creeper: three stories], 1896
  • De dochters van den generaal [The daughters of the general], 1897
  • Driftkopje: een verhaal, 1897
  • Kleine menschen: drie verhalen [Little people: three stories], 1897
  • Op kostschool en thuis [At boarding school and at home], 1897
  • Rietje's pop [Rietje's doll], 1897
  • Heintje Pochhans, 1898
  • Kibbelaarstertje, 1898
  • Lachebekje: een verhaal, 1898
  • Regen en zonneschijn: drie verhalen [Rain and sunshine: three stories], 1898
  • Kruidje-roer-me-niet, 1899
  • De berewoudjes [The mountain forests], 1900
  • Van een grootmoeder en zeven kleinkinderen [From a grandmother and seven grandchildren], 1900
  • Robbedoes, 1905
  • Rudi Willenborg, 1909
  • Hedwigs St. Nicolaasfeest [Hedwig's Saint Nicholas feast], 1914
  • Ons zonnetje: een verhaal [Our sunshine: a story], 1915
As Anna Koubert
  • Nieuwe paneeltjes [New panels], Amsterdam, 1894
  • Een scheepje zonder roer [A boat without a rudder], Amsterdam, 1895
  • Confetti, Amsterdam, 1898
  • Moeder Wassink [Mother Wassink], Amsterdam, 1900

References

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  1. ^ Suzanna van Dijk (2004). I Have Heard about You: Foreign Women's Writing Crossing the Dutch Border: from Sappho to Selma Lagerlöf. Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 318. ISBN 90-6550-752-3.
  2. ^ Tine van Berken
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