A. van der (Alida) Flier

A. van der Flier was the pen name of Alida van der Flier (1860–1920), a Dutch author whose work is listed by both DBNL and Project Gutenberg. The surviving catalog record confirms her dates and shows that she published fiction under the abbreviated form of her name.

Her known books include In den strijd. Herinneringen van een Transvaalschen jongen (1900) and Toen de duisternis dreigde..., which suggests an interest in historical storytelling and in narratives written for younger readers. Even from these titles alone, her work seems drawn to periods of upheaval and to characters finding their way through larger moral or political struggles.

Detailed biographical information about her life is hard to confirm from the sources I found, so it is safer to remember her through the work itself: a writer from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century whose novels remained notable enough to be preserved in major Dutch and public-domain literary collections.