A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint

Born in Alkmaar in 1812, Anna Louisa Geertruida Toussaint grew into one of the Netherlands' best-known nineteenth-century writers. She published first under her maiden name, A. L. G. Toussaint, and after her 1851 marriage to the painter Johannes Bosboom her books and later editions appeared under the name Bosboom-Toussaint.

She is remembered above all for historical novels and novellas. Early success came with works such as Almagro and De graaf van Devonshire, and later she wrote admired fiction including Het huis Lauernesse. Sources also describe a shift in her later years away from purely historical fiction toward novels more focused on nineteenth-century aristocratic and bourgeois society.

Bosboom-Toussaint died in The Hague in 1886. She is still regarded as an important figure in Dutch literature, especially for the way she brought together romantic storytelling, historical research, and moral and religious themes.