Annie Foore

Annie Foore was the pen name of Francisca Johanna Jacoba Alberta IJzerman-Junius (March 26, 1847 – June 2, 1890), a Dutch-born writer associated with the Dutch East Indies. She is remembered as an important European woman author writing about colonial life in the Indies, and her fiction focused on the manners, tensions, and relationships of that world.

Her books include Florence's droom (1872), De koloniaal en zijn overste (1877), Indische huwelijken (1887), and Bogoriana (1890). Modern readers can still find some of her work through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep her writing accessible.

Although she is not widely known today outside specialist circles, Annie Foore continues to interest literary historians for the way she captured everyday social life in the late 19th-century colonial setting. Her work offers both storytelling and a window into the culture she observed so closely.