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Annie Sillevis

b. 1880

Best known for a sharp 1907 response to a popular novel about women students, this Dutch writer speaks from the heart of an early debate about education, independence, and how women’s lives were portrayed. Her work also seems to have had a long afterlife through later Dutch translations credited to the same name.

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Een Meisje-Student over 'Een Meisje-Studentje'

Een Meisje-Student over 'Een Meisje-Studentje'

by Annie Sillevis

About the author

Annie Sillevis is known from the 1907 Dutch booklet Een Meisje-Student over 'Een Meisje-Studentje'. In it, she answered Annie Salomons’s portrayal of female student life, arguing for a more serious and realistic view of women studying at university. Modern Leiden University material still points to the book as part of the conversation around women students in Leiden, and Project Gutenberg has preserved the text in digital form.

Reliable biographical details about her life are surprisingly scarce in the sources I could confirm. I could verify her published work and her place in literary catalogues such as The Online Books Page, but I could not confidently confirm fuller personal details beyond the date you supplied. For that reason, this overview stays focused on the work itself rather than guessing at her background.

The name Annie Sillevis also appears on later Dutch translations of Jorge Luis Borges, including De Aleph and De Zahir. Because the available sources here do not clearly establish whether these credits belong to the same person, that connection should be treated with caution.