author
Annie Foore
1847–1890
A pioneering Dutch-language novelist of the Dutch East Indies, she wrote sharp, observant fiction about colonial society and the pressures faced by European women living there. Her work helped open space for women's perspectives in nineteenth-century writing about Indonesia.
2 Audiobooks
Bogoriana: Roman uit Indië
by Annie Foore
Indische Huwelijken
by Annie Foore
About the author
Born in Tiel on March 26, 1847, Francisca Johanna Jacoba Alberta IJzerman-Junius wrote under the pen name Annie Foore. She spent much of her life in the Dutch East Indies, and her fiction grew out of close experience with colonial life there.
Foore is remembered as one of the early women writers to portray the Dutch East Indies from a female point of view. Her stories and novels often focused on the expectations placed on European women, the strains of marriage and household life, and the social divisions of colonial society. Her best-known work, Bogoriana, is especially noted for its satirical picture of life in the Indies.
She died in 1890, still only in her early forties, but her writing remains an important part of Dutch colonial and women's literary history. Today, she is valued both for the vivid world she captured and for the way she gave women in that world a stronger voice.